>>There's a lot of publicity at the moment about the Roman Catholic hierarchy covering up instances of child abuse, the Church of England priest who married my wife & I was arrested & found guilty of child abuse. Do we infer from these instances that all Christians are child abusers (or maybe only the clergy).
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>... or blame His Holiness Jesus Christ.
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>I think the priority nowadays is not to prove the superiority of one religion or another, but to live together peacefully. (See: Message to Religious Leaders,
http://www.bahai.org/article-1-1-0-1.html)
I agree with that sentiment.
I was trying to point out to Doug that a few bad people should not reflect on the entire of that community. His two personal examples of "bad" Muslims does not mean that all Muslims believe they should behave in the same way.
Len Speed