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[cheekbones3]

This post, discovered on friendsfriends, caused me to write the following reply in some sort of feeling of annoyance (or probably more depression), but since the owner disallows non-friends posts, then I'm just going to have to put it here instead!

I wasn't sure of that person's motives in posting, although in her interests I noted conservatism, which leads me to jump to unfortunate conclusions. Such is the world.

It's a shame that anybody resorts to violence in the name of religion. Just because Islam was spread by the sword, does not mean that the Crusades were at all justified.

Ferdinand and Isabella were not exactly peaceful in their spreading of Catholicism, nor were the Princes of India in spreading Hinduism, nor the Pharoahs in their conquests, nor Ariel Sharon in his pre-emptive actions. Religion is causing no end of pain and suffering in the world, and in my opinion is best kept at a personal level.

Comments

[kangaroo.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that people only disallow non friends when they wish to discourage discussion. Their word is final, and so implicitly best, and all that sort of thing.

I think it goes directly against the idea of livejournal and its abilities to promote / share different ideas and ways of life.

OK, so people might post horrid comments, but, um, there's a delete button....?

Blah.

(The one time I ever really wanted to discuss something, I found that the person in question had banned me from posting to their LJ...! It just seems to smack of insecurity.)

[kynon.livejournal.com]

I have banned a few people from my journal, but that was merely because of serious personal abuse having been posted, and banning meant saving the time it would take to manually delete the comments!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I thought.