Monotheism Reproved In "TIME"

[JGeropoulas]

I was thumbing through a recent issue of TIME magazine, and came across the following reader comments. It boosted my morale to see that, even after wading through disinformation each week in mainstream media's TIME, some readers can still sort through it all and think critically.

TIME Magazine
12-18-06

LETTERS

Christianity, Islam, and the Pope

MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS THAT LAY
claim to the one and only possible truth
are doomed by their very nature to end
up in conflict. The only way out is to free
ourselves from all these ancient, divisive
creeds and thus extinguish their fires of
righteousness. A little more humility about
the human condition and our relation to a
higher power would go a long way toward
healing what divides us.

CAROLYN D. LEWIS
Ocean View, Del.

ANY DECENT, FAIR-MINDED PERSON HAS
moral obligation to condemn extremism,
religious or secular. But the Pope's pre-
emptory linking of Islam and violence is
irrational and irresponsible, especially when
such a wildly inaccurate judgment comes
from somebody whose religion has histor-
ically caused much more extensive and
brutal suffering than Islam ever has.

HUSAM DUGHMAN
Toronto

Then there are those others--God love 'em--who seem to be in an entirely different "state."

IF ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION,
why are so many of those who engage in
terrorism avowed Muslims? Why do Muslims
claim the West is oppressing them when oil
prices are going through the roof? Muslims
must take a good look at themselves and
their way of thinking to find out what has
gone wrong with their societies for the past
five centuries.

LEO W. DAVIS
Waco, Texas

 

[Nienna]

IF ISLAM IS SUCH A PEACEFUL RELIGION,
why are so many of those who engage in
terrorism avowed Muslims? Why do Muslims
claim the West is oppressing them when oil
prices are going through the roof? Muslims
must take a good look at themselves and
their way of thinking to find out what has
gone wrong with their societies for the past
five centuries.

LEO W. DAVIS
Waco, Texas

Wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black! How truly amazing.