Are You On His List?

Is it just me or is the woman in the red jacket flashing her chest at the sign guy?

Uh. Well, first of all, yes, I’m on the list, at least as I see it, though not terribly explicitly. But it’s weird that he is warning Muslims, Buddhists, etc…and RACISTS.

I’m on there three times (it would have been four but for some reason he only singles out lazy Christians).

Redhead: Playing Devil’s advocate, so to speak, I don’t see that there’s necessarily a contradiction in condemning racists along with Muslims and Buddhists. I suppose that might not be your point.

I join him in his condemnation of the baby killing women. Somebody really should find that baby and stop him!

I think we’re treading awfully close to Godwin’s Law here… are you saying that one cannot dislike the tenets of a religion (like say Christianity, or hey, Scientology) without also — concurrently — being a racist?

What’s your beef with racists being “judged by God” as in the sign?

To be fair I was just yanking your chain a little in my last comment. There is no question that the nutbar is being an insensitive clown. I think we can agree on that. But I do not equate religions with skin pigments; in this city alone you can easily find Asian Christians, Caucasian Muslims and Indian Jews. I read his inclusion of Muslims as “people who believe and practice the tenets of the Islamic faith”, not “Those dark-skinned fellas over there, somewhere”. It’s targeted at members of other faiths / creeds (i.e. more broadly as “Christ-rejecters” also mentioned in the sign) regardless of their skin pigmentation or country of residence.

I think the nutball’s placement of other non-Christ-centred religions on the placard is entirely in line with at least one truth-claim of Christianity (i.e. people who do not accept Christ do not go to heaven). It would also be entirely consistent with the truth-claims of Islam for a Muslim to placard “Christians will not see Paradise”, and for Jews to put on their placards “Christians follow a false Messiah”.

It is of course not at all polite to say these things to random strangers; but that is what it all boils down to. Religions do not ecumenically share base principles or exclusive truth-claims in their own estimation. Everybody has a shot at a glorious whatever but only the people who accept and live by the religion’s precepts get whatever reward is being offered. That is the nature of religions.

That is also a distinct possibility. =)