Christian love

[Max Sawicky]

Critiques of relgion(s) can be constructive,
civil, and fair, or they can be bigoted.
Pat Buchanan's lifelong jew-baiting is bigotry.
The media equation of Islam and exotic irrationality
is too.  There are softer expressions as well. It is
legitimate to condemn religious expression that
condemns some alleged miscreant to death for
something they said or wrote.  It is bigotry
to apply such condemnation indiscriminantly,
or to apply it to unrelated religious doctrine.

mbs

Yes -- from the likes of Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson. But it is one thing
to discriminate against a person of faith, say in civil matters (denying
them a home, a loan, a seat in a restaurant solely because of their
beliefs); it is another to attack the basis of the faith in print or in oral
argument. The latter to me is not "bigotry" any more than anti-Marxism or
anti-Hegelianism is "bigotry." Religious thought is, at bottom,
philosophical, and thus is open to any or all critiques, mild or harsh, fair
or unfair.

DP