I hope this isn't going to turn into a religious fight. It is one thing to argue political philosophy but religion is pretty near and dear to people's hearts. I grew up a Lutheran and became a Catholic and love both of those religions for various and sundry things. Neither are perfect I guess.
When people put the reformation into any sentence I cry out....tooooo long ago. Most huge changes were attempts to make any thing better and some did and some didn't. Religion is a highly personal and very sacred thing to most of us. It isn't logical but most of us hold on to some tenets of some kind of religion, if it is only tradition. It is part and parcel of our lives and if God lives, he/she is the only person who knows if we are doin' it right.
Most faiths hold out kindness as one of the first things you learn. I hope most of us can work toward that premise in our dealings with other peoples religious beliefs.
But we won't. People are people.
And there is a door out of this thread. I think I will use it this time.
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