[sashah]

"Simple question: in your mind and way of thinking, are all religions equally valid?"

No. I think all people are equally valid as long as they do not infringe on someone else's rights. I want to build a tolerant society where not all people get along, but where people do not need to kill each other or put each other down to exist.

[Hot Tabasco]

I want to build a tolerant society where not all people get along, but where people do not need to kill each other or put each other down to exist.

Are you trying to tell me that such a society does not exist here in the United States? Or are you implying that WHERE YOU LIVE SUCH A SOCIETY DOES NOT EXIST?

Care to let the rest of us know where it is exactly that you live?

[LiteKeeper]

Do you acknowledge that there are people in this world who do not want to "get along" and who do not feel the need to negotiate? That there are people in this world who do not tolerate others in society, and believe that the sword and the bomb are the only way to get what they want? And that they only respond to in-kind force? That is the real world that we live in.

We Christians belive in loving our neighbors, as well as our enemies. But our God has also warned us that there are those who will only listen to the sword...and the agents of our government are authorized by God to defend the weak and the oppressed with the sword, if need be.