{"id":20436,"date":"2010-09-12T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20436"},"modified":"2010-09-12T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:21:48","slug":"diliberto-on-crazed-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20436","title":{"rendered":"Diliberto on “Crazed Christians”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Diliberto from “Rethinking Afghanistan” and a frequent visitor here, sent us a link to his latest piece on Huffington Post entitled “Crazed Christians: Two Lifesized Looney Tunes<\/a>” about Terry Jones and Fred Phelps and their handful of acolytes and somehow Diliberto blames all of Christendom for these few idiots.<\/p>\n

Christian leaders should take these real-life cartoon characters as a wake-up call. No one will dislike the church who feeds the poor and provides health care for others (except, of course, Glenn Beck). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that there isn’t some Grand Council of Christians who can condemn to death folks who commit themselves to an odd and distasteful branch of Christianity. And I don’t know what kind of “wake up call” is required. Blaming the entirety of the Christian religion for the acts of a few is fairly narrow-minded and smacks of bigotry. To hint that “Christian leaders” are somehow responsible by their inaction is just plain ignorant.<\/p>\n

Diliberto begins his article by comparing these two knuckleheads to some of the worst events in history;<\/p>\n

Between the Crusades, the Great Schism, the Thirty Years’ War, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Christian genocide of Native Americans, Christianity has plenty of black eyes to go around. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, all of you Christians who took part in any of those events, please raise your hands. Really? No one? OK, let me see the hands of those of you who condone those incidents. None of you? Then WTH point is Diliberto trying to make?<\/p>\n

I read the other articles Diliberto wrote<\/a> on Huffington Post and I don’t see one that condemns any other religion for real atrocities like throwing acid on schoolgirls, blowing up shopping centers, blowing up train loads of commuters, stabbing ideological opponents on a public street in Europe, raiding tourist hotels with guns, bombs and grenades, shooting up unarmed soldiers in Texas, attempted bombings in Chicago and New York, shooting two privates in Arkansas on a smoke break…need I go on? And those are things that happened in the last few years and happen every day – not something that happened centuries ago.<\/p>\n

If Diliberto can blame Christians for the misguided antics of two sects, why doesn’t he blame Islam for the deadly and terroristic (my own word, don’t look it up) behavior of several thousand Muslims?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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