Well, one does hear from time to time about a PC bias at
Wikipedia.
Not everything bad is actually terrorism.
Not every act of terrorism perpetrated by a Christian,
Buddhist, Muslim, or whatever is, in the relevant sense, an act of Christian,
Buddhist, Muslim, or whatever terrorism.
Killing out of tribal loyalty or hatred is different from
killing because it is God’s will that you do so.
The long tradition of Christian anti-Semitism is an
interesting twist of the knife.
There is no divine sanction in Christian scripture or
tradition for the slaughter or persecution of Jews, and yet hatred of Jews,
abuse of Jews, and violence against Jews were for centuries taught and
sanctioned by churchmen, if not quite officially the Church.
The reasons given for this hatred were commonly the Jews’
continuing rejection of the Messiah (Jesus Christ) and their apparently hereditary
status as “Christ killers.”
We see here that hatred finds the most bizarre things to
blame people for.
The “Christ killer” thing is transparently absurd, even on
the assumption of the truth of the New Testament narrations, in a manner very similar
to ethnic and racial hatreds fed by tales of ancestral crimes and ancient
injustices.
And the Jewish disbelief of the Christian Jesus Christ never
made Jews particularly unique.
Too, note that hating people for not believing what you
personally believe, or what your tribe believes, is not per se in any sense due
to or traceable to or imputable to religion.
People hate each other for having different tastes in
novels, ice cream, or poetry.
Nobody blames that on the ice cream.
Obfuscation is a very popular form of propaganda, as is the
false tu quoque.
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