James: “Something else to consider is if you start painting every religious group with a single brush, then logically you can attack the entire Catholic Church for the crimes of a few child molesters. Then the next step is to condemn all Moslem’s for believing in Islam because if Islam was started today in America it would most likely be considered a cult and would need to be dealt with accordingly. But the point is who am I to determine which religion is a cult and which isn’t?? ”
The point is that basically every religion is cult-like. And they are all basically man-made. All cults are not created equally, obviously as well.
The difference is that the Head of the Catholic faith does NOT say he is a Prophet and as head of the faith, he does NOT condone pedophilia. Nor does he condone plural wives. In fact, as the keeper of the faith and as leader, the Pope does not even condone sex before marriage and also does not operate outside the laws of the land. Within the Catholic church there is transparency. Pedophile priests are not heads of the faith, they are employees of the Pope. Churches are NOT compounds in which families live. Pedo priests are NOT above the laws of the land nor are excused by the Pope for breaking laws of Land or the faith. Jesus, the rightful “prophet” of the Christian faith, “according to the bible” was neither married nor sleep with underage boys and girls. Are there what we would consider perverts (pedos) inside the Catholic faith that operate as employees? Yes. Are they punished? When caught and convicted, yes. Does that mean the Catholic faith is one that condones deviant behaviour? no.
Fundamentalist sharia Islam is based on the scriptures according to Mohammed. The man was what we, in the US and around the west, consider a pedophile. According to the Koran, he had a 9 year old bride. Also according to the koran he was a polygamist as he had many wives. Within the Koran there are many examples of how muslims should live. None of which has been changed. There is no seperation between “church and state.”
The differences between the Christian religion and fundamentalist Islam is Enlightenment. Christianity cannot dictate to the government. Islam IS the government. Christians may hate the idea of abortion but as a faith-based entity it does not have power to stop it in a legal sense.
Islam would not be able to exist in this country as it exists in direct conflict to our rule of seperation of church and state and much of Islams
practices are also in direct conflict to the fundamental equal rights present here.
The compound of a cult such as FLDS is no different than a mini fundamentalist islamic state, and its practices in direct conflict with laws of our land, therefore should NOT be allowed to operate.
