Reluctantly turning the other cheek<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n\nI must say though, Raymond, there is more than a grain of truth in what
\nthe writer said: it is an incontestable fact that millions of people
\nthe world over and through recorded history have been slaughtered for
\nthe sake of, and in the name of, \"the one true god\". However, from that
\nmonotheistic tradition has ALSO come the very real idea that God is
\nlove, which millions of other people have lived by and in so doing have
\nmade the world a better place through that belief.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nLloyd, you won't hear me disagreeing with your statement that millions
\nhave died at the hands of those proclaiming \"the one true god\". My
\ncomment had more to do with my own conflicted irritation with the
\nreflexive yet popular bashing of monotheism at the hands of ostensibly
\nserious writers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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