swhitebull

..and I thought he celebrated Christmas.. 

 

..don't ask me how I know that.. 

This is one of these wonderful moments when we see just how little difference there is between religious nutjobs of all shades.

 

In Australia members of Catholic cult Opus Dei, with the backing of the Vatican, have launched campaigns to have Harry Potter books removed from Catholic schools. I'm pretty sure similar things have happened in Catholic & Evangelical schools in America. What next, denoucning the Teletubbies? (oops, too late).

 

Conservative Christians & Islamic fundamentalists actually have some history of co-operation, in particular on limiting access for women to contraception & abortion services.

 

Better watch out swhitebull, one day those philosemite evanglicals will realise that the jews don't plan to convert, and will start making alliances with their true soul mates - the mullahs.

The last HarryPo movie I saw (#4, with the kids) left me somewhat shocked with the deeply pagan and druidic undertones of the story, which go a lot further than a total absence of Christian cultural and moral references, and even hint at human sacrifice. This goes a long way against the monotheistic "abrahamic revolution" of 3,000 years ago, and, to remind you, the last such pagan reversal in Europe was called nazism.
So, while acknowledging the Jewish paranoia that you're trying to invoke by inferring that the evangelicals and the salafists might become, after all, soulmates, I think the Opus Dei and such have a point.
I'm secular and I don't think much of religion, but I do resent attempts to negate the achievements of the main monotheistic religions in such areas in which they have caused mankind to progress from the rule of fear of the prodigy-makers and their murderous rituals, to a more humanistic and level-headed approach that guaranties the right to life and some freedom from irrational terror.

Mainstream Islam, it seems, has undergone a reversal of values that is very similar, and indeed related, to the nazi death cult of 65 years ago, so it is not surprising that the ruling duodeciman Shi'ia and Salafist currents take a dim view to any competing approach to their own perversion.

Shirrush -

 

 

Just consider our moral absolutist source, here.

 

 

 

swhitebull

The Nazis did embrace a lot of the old 'agricultural' values, in order to gain popularity, but they pretty much standardised the various Chrstisian chruches into not being able to preach against Nazi ideals, virtually extolling them as a State-run religion.

 

That's very different to them endorsing fully-fledged, sweeping 'Pagan' reforms over the land. :)