Religious Opinion Piece


	Religious Opinion Piece

AtlLiberal

3-30-2007 1:36 PM

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religion, intolerance, opinion, blog, huffington

AtlLiberal says:

Interesting piece I ran across in the Huffington Post...

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			<A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-horton/intolerating-religions_b_44562.html">Intolerating Religions</A>
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		</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-horton/intolerating-religions_b_44562.html"><P>At different times, in different places, you could lose your head, or your hand, or your balls, be disemboweled, burnt alive, buried alive, stretched on a rack, strangled, stoned, hung - could die in any one of hundreds of extremely, and deliberately, unpleasant ways, just because you believed in a different imaginary friend to the person who had the power to kill you. One day you could be the one in charge of boiling in oil, the next, under a new king or queen with a different religious belief, you could be the one being boiled.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-horton/intolerating-religions_b_44562.html"><P>This is not just a matter of old practices, it still goes on today, in parts of the world. And even if you are not being hung, drawn and quartered, you may still find yourself forced out of town, or subject to vilification, or, at best, simply not allowed to teach in schools, or run for public office, if you have a religious belief, or no religious belief, different to that of the majority in your country or community.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/579C7634-6AC6-4F8B-BAC9-8B8744E71F8B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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