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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/18/11273229-group-blasts-marine-corps-for-reviving-crusaders-name-and-symbols?lite>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>God forbid the Muslims get offended,
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>>>>>>>>I'm not a Muslim and I'm offended by my tax dollars being spent to have a unit called "The Crusaders." Crusaders were folks who marched across Europe and killed people (possibly including my ancestors) who didn't belong to their religion.
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>>>>>>>>Aside from this particular imagery, there's a problem in the US military of religious intolerance with non-Christian members being harassed about it. Religious imagery has no place in the military.
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>>>>>>>What a crock.
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>>>>>>What's a crock? That crusaders were killers, or that the military has a problem with intolerance by Christians?
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>>>>>Killers? Intolerance?
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>>>>>That's called Islam.
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>>>>>How far does the military have to go to make itself socially acceptable to you? Pull all the crosses off the graves? Require all members renounce their faith (and there are a hell of a lot of them even now in the age of immorality)? Religious intolerance by athiests who require everyone to bend to their will so they won't be offended by things they don't believe or care about is absolutely hypocritical.
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>>>>What the military has to do is allow all members to practice their own religions or choose to practice no religion without being harassed and without fear that their choices will cost them promotions. Knowing that you'll reject articles from most sources, here's one from ABC:
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/US/story?id=1028372&page=1#.T5Gct9XzCpl>>>
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>>>"Of the roughly 4,000 cadets at the Air Force Academy, about 93 percent are Christian"
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>>>Wanna keep trying to push athiesm by posting athiest crap? Too bad. Maybe you should get the f^&$ over it. Is it intolerance for other people to not want to listen or read your crap?
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>>How am I pushing atheism? More importantly, if 93% are Christian, why can't they leave the other 7% alone about their religion? Why are the majority so insecure that they can't accept that others don't believe as they do?
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>So Minority rule right? we wouldn't want to say..
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>Why are the MINORITY so insecure that they can't accept that others don't believe as they do?
The minority does accept that. What they don't and shouldn't accept is members of the majority harassing them because they believe differently.
Tamar
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>>FWIW, my understanding is that the problems are coming not from all or even most Christians, but from a small evangelical minority, who harass not just non-Christians, but Christians who aren't evangelicals. The problem is that the leadership has allowed this harassment to continue.
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>>Tamar
