Message #34085

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I find it more important to probe into a persons understanding by asking for clarification, explanation and even specific definitions when they say that. Sometimes what they believe and what we think they believe are different. Words are easy to misconstrue. Humans(not one particular religion over the other) can easily become preoccupied with a messenger over the message- essentially it is still the presence and message they are drawn to. It is difficult to articulate your beliefs if you aren't talking about it or questioning them. Because I know you feel to have been persecuted by Christians I believe your categorizing people into this- 'many if not most' kind of way is tinged with a little bias.
Truly the culprit you are trying to describe is intolerance, which we know is not limited to any one religion but in fact a phenomenon of its own- in religion, in society, in the house hold...