[Vision2020] True Muslims and True Americans

[Taro Tanaka]

Nick Gier <nickgier at adelphia.net> wrote:

[[ I personally find the idea that Jesus was a blood sacrifice for human sin 
is just as primitive, barbaric, and outrageous as the human sacrifice in 
other religions. Again, the Constitution would protect the belief and, and 
fortunately, laws would prevent the actual practice. ]]

So much for Nick's "respecting" all religious beliefs. Apparently he meant 
"repecting all religious beliefs except orthodox Christianity." It never 
ceases to amaze how someone can utter pious platitudes about respecting all 
religious beliefs and then turn around and insultingly deny the most 
fundamental core belief of the Christian faith without any apparent 
awareness of their self-contradiction. This is what is known in the 
vernacular as lying to one's self. Since Nick won't be, or perhaps can't be, 
honest, I'll state the obvious for him: Nick Gier manifests a deep-seated 
hatred for orthodox Christianity.

Also noteworty is his assertion, with approval, that a person can legally 
hold to any religious beliefs but does not have a right to actually live in 
accordance with those beliefs. In other words, the State is justified in 
imposing one set of religious beliefs on all others. This is what Nick Gier 
means by "respecting all religious beliefs." This is what is known in the 
vernacular as double speak, or talking out of both sides of one's mouth. 
Since Nick won't be, or perhaps can't be, honest, I'll state the obvious for 
him: Nick Gier kneels at the altar of Statism (a posture assumed by most of 
his fellow intoleristas on V2020) worshipping Man The Self-Creator as 
manifested in the power of the totalitarian State. In this religious system, 
anything goes ("Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law") except 
anything that competes with or denies the ultimate sovereignty of the State.

And therein lies Gier's hatred of orthodox Christianity and its Head, Jesus 
of Nazareth. Orthodox Christianity insists, over and against the claims of 
Statists in all places and ages, that not Man but rather Jesus is Lord over 
everything. Orthodox Christianity holds that the State is just one system of 
government with a limited sphere of authority alongside the God-established 
institutions of the Church and the Family, which also have limited spheres 
of authority, and that all three institutions are ultimately answerable to 
the one true King, the One who was crucified, dead, buried, resurrected 
after three days and who ascended to Heaven and reigns seated at the right 
hand of the Father, one day to return in judgment of the living and the 
dead. It is this claim of the eternal kingship of Jesus the Messiah more 
than anything else that Gier cannot tolerate. Contrary to what Gier would 
have us believe, if that Jesus were to be born in our age and make the sorts 
of claims about Himself that He made in the gospels, it is not difficult to 
imagine exactly what Gier's response would be. His reaction would most 
definitely NOT be to say "fortunately laws prevent that sort of thing." What 
they did to Jesus 2000 years ago was also illegal, but that did nto prevent 
all the PhDs of that age from joining in calling for His crucifixion.

So, to conclude, Nick Gier really does have equal respect for all religious 
beliefs -- all but the beliefs of one religion, orthodox Christianity. And 
that's the truth.

-- Princess Sushitushi

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