Those Who Would Deny
Yesterday, in a thread on facebook, I was was attempting to point out that both Christians and Muslims have mutually been creating mistrust and ill will between each other for the last 1500 years and that the ongoing actions of the radical Arab Islamist is just the latest chapter of violence that began in earnest with the Crusades.
No sooner than that comment had been posted, another reader responded:
I can not help but wonder how it is some folks can have the outrageous insolence, the effrontery, the gall to deny the facts of an event as large as the Christian Crusades by this Christian man or of the Nazi Holocaust by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Muslim President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I can only attribute this to letting their religious BELIEFS based on MYTHS rather than FACTS spill over into the reality the REALITY of a world that produces FACTS rather than MYTHS. If the FACTS are not what they wish them to be, they must say, "let's turn them into MYTHS". And, if they repeat them enough times these MYTHS will become religious BELIEFS in much the say way they came to consider ALL their religious BELIEFS to be FACTS, rather than MYTHS unsupported by FACTS.
This behavior, of course, only intensifies the hate and mistrust between the believers in the two religions and the vicious circle continues to spin around and around without stop.
Can this behavior and this circle of hate and mistrust be stopped? I would like to think so but, unfortunately, don't think so ... not so long as those who would deny FACT in support of their blind faith in their religious BELIEFS abound.
No sooner than that comment had been posted, another reader responded:
"Dave, history is showing that what has been written about the crusades is very false and biased. Most of that history was written by anti-Catholics and actual historical documents being unearthed are refuting it. ..."
I can not help but wonder how it is some folks can have the outrageous insolence, the effrontery, the gall to deny the facts of an event as large as the Christian Crusades by this Christian man or of the Nazi Holocaust by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Muslim President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I can only attribute this to letting their religious BELIEFS based on MYTHS rather than FACTS spill over into the reality the REALITY of a world that produces FACTS rather than MYTHS. If the FACTS are not what they wish them to be, they must say, "let's turn them into MYTHS". And, if they repeat them enough times these MYTHS will become religious BELIEFS in much the say way they came to consider ALL their religious BELIEFS to be FACTS, rather than MYTHS unsupported by FACTS.
This behavior, of course, only intensifies the hate and mistrust between the believers in the two religions and the vicious circle continues to spin around and around without stop.
Can this behavior and this circle of hate and mistrust be stopped? I would like to think so but, unfortunately, don't think so ... not so long as those who would deny FACT in support of their blind faith in their religious BELIEFS abound.
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