Teacher Beheaded in France for Showing Class Picture of Muhammad

SystemShock said

I thought you were done. Why do you continue to reply to me on this subject?

And it is relevant. These are the type of "textuals" who are conveniently interpreted to fit whatever agenda church leaders have at the time, like a 13th century Pope with a private army. We are talking about people who thought burning someone alive would purify their souls.

And no, you have no idea what the writer's intended meaning was. You don't even know who the actual writer was.

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and granted this is a semantic and subjective distinction, but i would say if you are abstracting the text to achieve a goal against another peoples, then it's political
if you are applying the text to facilitate an individual or cultural spirituality, then it's religious

to whit - marshaling against abortion or homosexuality or other issues the gospels did not address even remotely is political
- if people are organizing to feed the poor or heal the sick - stuff jesus went on and on and on and on and on about - that's religious