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Originally Posted by underdawg
i know my message came across harsh...
i am a very fair and unbiased person.. but reading the posts after the first one.. got me rather emotional in a sense that .. this is how the "common man" thinks...
and i think that is wrong.. becuase i don't believe that many people have the knowledge or understanding to see it from both sides (myself included)
the redneck comment was just stating a point that its just as stupid to assume that as it is this....
I have started to research .. and i hope to find the answers i am lookin for....
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No, that is not how the "common" man thinks. The far greater majority of all peoples all over the world are very tolerant and open to and respect the religions or whatever of other peoples. It is the fundamentalist, the die hard fundamentalists on both sides that throw coal into the fire. They are the ones who believe they are the only ones who are right and everyone else should be like them.
I have researched religion, I do know about the Muslim faith, not as much as one who practises the Muslim faith of course, but I know some of the basic tenets. And I have no problem with the Muslim faith, as practised within the norms of the Muslim religion. It, like most other religions, teaches love and respect and acceptance of the common man. But as with any religion, if taken to the extreme, it will not fit into the accepted practise of most people.
Most religions are far more alike than they are different. Sure, we might call ourselves by different names, ie Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, etc, we might say God, we might say Allah, we might say Jehovah. Who the hell cares? Not me. Most religions have basic practises within their religions, such as marraige, burial, birth and baptism etc. So what if each religion practises them somewhat differently. For instance, I am Lutheran, surely I must hate Catholics? Right? Wrong!!! Who cares if we confirm our children at 14 and the Catholics at 8? This is such a very small difference in the whole scope of things, it is just tooooooooooo silly to make a big issue of it.
So please dont say that the reaction of the people on the airplane, the flight attendants, people on this CP chat site are "red necked" ignorant people. We are not. I would wager that 99% of us have no problem with people who pray, with witnessing people praying, with people who practise their religion in any way. But we do have a problem doing it within the confines of an airplane where we have no choice of leaving if we are not comfortable with it. Most people will be uncomfortable with some things in life, that does not make them "rednecks", "bigots" etc. All we are saying is that if you draw attention to yourself in any way, and in this case it happened to be religion, dont be surprised when there are consequences to that behaviour.
