Yet another religious cult raided

[--Pete]

Hi,

Regardless of my own beliefs, I'm more comfortable with a society that believes in the Christian God, because that limits the extent that they would choose to dominate each other.

I nearly choked when I read this. The history of Christianity is a history of domination. Domination of one Christian group (i.e., "heretics") by the orthodoxy. Domination of non-Christian groups by the 'missionaries' (e.g., the conquistadors with their guns and crosses). Domination of 'pagans' (the 'conversions' of the Germanic tribes, of the Celts, of the Norse). Domination of other religions (the laws restricting the rights of Jews throughout Europe, the British laws restricting non-Christians in many places of the Empire, especially India). Domination of their neighbors, such as the Moors in Spain and the peoples of the Middle East throughout five centuries of 'crusades'.

Please, if that is limited domination, then what, short of the gas chamber and crematorium, is unlimited domination.

Give me the tolerance of the Tao over Christianity any day.

--Pete