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by Jdoemk2 4154 days ago
It is hyperbole. And I can't believe you really think "plenty" of people would want to hunt you because of your beliefs.

Don't exaggerate. Demonising people you disagree with does not help at all. Sensasionalising these problems won't bring about progress.
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GauntletWizard 4153 days ago
I'm not so certain that public lynchings for homosexuality wouldn't occur. On the other hand, there's plenty of people on the other side of the fence who'd see conservatives jailed and beaten (They'd not sully their hands themselves, just require the increasingly large nanny-state to do it) for disagreeing with their concept of 'progress'.

Maybe we just need to open the floodgates and let these factions kill each other off.

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ctdonath 4153 days ago
People are being pushed off buildings or beheaded precisely because of their beliefs. Today. Oh, sure, it's some war-torn region and done by extremists...but they weren't doing it more than a few months ago, and now the for-that-reason dead are numbering well into 5-6 digits and rising fast. It's real, it's growing, and there's many people who would "hunt you because of your beliefs" if not for the normalcy of rule & law.
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pstuart 4153 days ago
Oh. My. God. (irony intended).

Here you completely agree with my original point. But you're only willing to point fingers at the other dominant religion and take umbrage that your own flavor of Abrahamism could ever inspire bad behavior.

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