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Yes, Islam is dangerous gibberish, but only for the same reasons that all religions are dangerous gibberish.

No, christian "liberals": you don't get to criticize freakazoids. You created them and enable them.

The only thing worse than the freakazoids proudly waving their hate flag is the "liberal" christians bleating "no, that's not us."

Bullshit.

Brittney Cooper at Salon:

As a practicing Christian, I am deeply incensed by these calls for restoration and reclamation in the name of religious freedom. This kind of legislation is largely driven by conservative Christian men and women, who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class, Jew, doesn’t even meet all the qualifications.

Nothing about the cultural and moral regime of the religious right in this country signals any kind of freedom. In fact, this kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women. That means these people don’t represent any kind of Christianity that looks anything like the kind that I practice.

Oh, yes they do.  It is precisely the same christianity. They get their justifications from the same book you do, and they use your "moderate" religion as cover for their racism, homophobia, misogyny and general hatred for everyone not exactly like them.

Just the way al qaeda and ISIS get their justification from the same book the Saudis and Jordanians and every moderate Muslim get theirs.

No, not all christians are right-wing terrorists, just as not all muslims are islamic terrorists.

But the "moderates" of both religions give cover to and enable their terrorists.

Proud Christian Terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Scott Roeder and Eric Rudolph are all yours, Brittney.  You want to fight wingnut christianity?  Start with the person in the mirror.

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