Bingowings said:

darth_ender said:

Try and tone down the rhetoric and look what happens. I was even providing compliments. As much as I have to say (and as many posts as I would like to reply to), I think I'm better off sticking to my original plan for now and resuming my vow of silence. I use my time better when I do.

2000 years of non-rhetorical silence got people tortured and burned to death by instruments of the establishment.

Under a century of rhetoric and in the West at least such actions are moved to the fringes of society.

One can not have enough equality.

It's all or nothing so if some can promote a religion with the stoning to death of a group within society in it's Holy Text the current state of equality would be for me to promote a group where the stoning of Mormons to death was okay even though I couldn't legally do it.

I could use that book to lobby for the reduction of my freedoms of Mormons (not allowing them to marry or adopt children for example).

People could use that book to justify the beating of people to death and rejecting their own children if they found themselves drawn to Mormonism.

That would be wrong and evil.

If I can accept that what's stopping the world religions, other than the belief that those words are the literal word of God which returns to my questioning how worthy of worship such a God is.

I find it ironic, if not moronic that people who are critical of other countries with constitutional monarchs and cluck about the merits of plutocracy will bend the knee to an absolute spiritual tyrant.

I could try to respond to this, but what would be the point. You will not listen can continue to mock what I hold sacred and paint everyone of my religion as being in a hate group.