Lloyd wrote:
At the end of Mimi's post is one response to Raymond Yee's reaction to a reviewer he found shocking and thoughtless: Reluctantly turning the other cheek.I must say though, Raymond, there is more than a grain of truth in what the writer said: it is an incontestable fact that millions of people the world over and through recorded history have been slaughtered for the sake of, and in the name of, "the one true god". However, from that monotheistic tradition has ALSO come the very real idea that God is love, which millions of other people have lived by and in so doing have made the world a better place through that belief.
Lloyd, you won't hear me disagreeing with your statement that millions have died at the hands of those proclaiming "the one true god". My comment had more to do with my own conflicted irritation with the reflexive yet popular bashing of monotheism at the hands of ostensibly serious writers.
Posted by rdhyee at December 14, 2005 01:47 PM