While I'm getting flack for trashing entire religions, let's all remember that it's the year of the cock! That really helps me keep things in perspective.
You made a bombastic comment. No surprise. Some of your friends are Catholics...no big deal, yet. Where I disagree with some of the comments is whhere they comment on the issue of "saying something hurtful to friends" in your LJ.
Bottom line: It *is* your journal. You could have cut it (which you did later) but even then, had they read it, they'd have possibly become irritated. I appreciate not tossing antagonistic opinions into someone elses journals, but what I say in mine is the point of having the journal.
I do see where you were going with the political/religious analogy. Hell...if one were to look at the early years of the Reformation in Germany, the propaganda was entirely antithetical -- us or them oppositions -- and was reformers vs. orthodoxy (not Greek Orthodox). Religion was politics. Now - politics are becoming religion and even more devisive.
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Date: 2005-02-10 12:12 am (UTC)Bottom line: It *is* your journal. You could have cut it (which you did later) but even then, had they read it, they'd have possibly become irritated. I appreciate not tossing antagonistic opinions into someone elses journals, but what I say in mine is the point of having the journal.
I do see where you were going with the political/religious analogy. Hell...if one were to look at the early years of the Reformation in Germany, the propaganda was entirely antithetical -- us or them oppositions -- and was reformers vs. orthodoxy (not Greek Orthodox). Religion was politics.
Now - politics are becoming religion and even more devisive.