John Sobieski wrote:
My question remains, when did the USA and Canada have a "religious war"
with anyone?

We're having one right now. President Bush and many military commanders
have proclaimed the war in Iraq as a crusade, fight against satan, etc
etc. Many Christian fundamentalists... including a few in this "boating"
newsgroup... continually go on and on about how all Muslims are evil,
murdurous, subhuman, etc etc.



"John H" wrote
In your mind, do these Christian atrocities justify the current Muslim
atrocities?

No

Should we just live with and enjoy the Muslim killings?

You mean the killing of Muslims?
No.

You mean Muslims killing others?
No


If a reasonable Democrat were president, and he continued the fight against
Muslim terrorists, would you condemn him?


If we had a President who was fighting terrorists, be they Muslim or
Martian, I'd support him.

Our current gov't is taking a few positive steps against terrorism, and
I support them. The Bush Administration is also stamping out your
Constitutional rights as a pretense of fighting terrorism. They are also
underhandedly encouraging the proliferation of nuclear weapons by
potentially terrorist states, failing to secure U.S. borders, and a
number of other things I've already detailed & documented here... do
*you* support that?


John Sobieski wrote:
As a Christian, I abhor all atrocities against our fellow man. Admitidly,
there were in the long distant past atrocities committed by Christians.

And a lot in the not so distant past. But usually people don't like to
hear about them.

... But
no more than those committed by non Christians.

That's possible, it's difficult to keep accurate score over the
millenia. But Christianity has a long history of proclaiming militancy
for it's own sake.


... It does seem to me that the
most recent wave of atrocities and genocide are not committed by
Christians, but against them in some cases.


You should check the news in more detail. There are Christians
committing atrocities, mass murder, and genocide in several places
throughout the world, notably Indonesia and the Balkans. And there are a
lot of places right here in the USA where small-minded Christian bigots
feel free to terrorize... and in some cases, murder... their neighbors.

DSK