So recently we have learned it's potentially a capital offense for an Islamic man to convert to Christianity in Afghanistan. It's okay for an obnoxious group of renegade Baptists to invade the privacy of grieving families by protesting their country's perceived stance on homosexuality at our slain servicemen's funerals. It is okay in our country to cast a ballot at the polls irregardless of a candidate's stand on all other issues of major public policy in order to promulgate the particular tenets of one's religious faith with respect to values that belong between a person and his or her God. In waging jihad it is okay to resort to savagery and target the innocent to issue wake up calls or coerce a people to embrace their views or accept their agendas.
Sorry, but I don't buy any of it. None of it is okay in my book and, I dare say, in God's book either. God's invitation to love and be loved has always come wrapped in free will. This doesn't leave room for religious fanatics of any faith to, presuming the world incapable of exercising that free will, appoint its own governance to establish the rules and its own army to enforce strict adherence to them.
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