Freedom of religion

[TrogL]

(Originally posted on Fark.com so you just knoooooow there's got to be some sort of back story.)

http://bremerforcongress.blogspot.com/2006/08/freedom-of-religion.html

Last week I participated in a forum at Focus on the Family for its employees. A couple of newspapers printed short quotes from me that some people have found difficult to understand. Here are my actual views:

While I prefer that the Islamic Jihadists convert to my world view and receive the benefits of it, my point is that they must give up their world view and their particular version of Islam in order for us to have a peaceful world. From a geopolitical point of view, it does not matter whether they convert to "peaceful Islam" if that be a religion, or Buddhism or whatever, as long as they give up their religious ideology.

I would like to point out that while I believe Jesus is the only way to a proper relationship with God, I do believe that the only way for people to have that relationship is as a result of a free choice. That is totally different from someone, like the Taliban, who believes that people should not have a free choice. I promote freedom. I believe that God invented freedom and gave it as the rightful inheritance of all men. Only freedom is compatible with my world view. Tyranny is not.

[mcscajun]

1. Yup...that wingnut certainly believes in freedom over tyranny.

So long as he/she gets to decide whose freedom under which tyranny. Free choice is fine so long as you make the choice he/she agrees with, the choice for Jesus.

[hobbit709]

2. Personally, I want

FREEDOM FROM RELIGION

[enlightenment]

3. I second that! nt