11-02-2018, 03:48 AM
If wikipedia is to be believed exorcism is still a thing in the Catholic church. Puritans gave us the Salem Witch Trials. Obviously some practitioners of Islam are insane. Right now there is rioting in Pakistan because a woman was acquitted of heresy and her execution is no longer to be looked forward to. Judaism doesn't seem to produce that many atrocities unless you ask the Palestinians who themselves have been known to get a little carried away when trying to make a point but nevertheless Judaism has its own flavor of fundamentalist nonsense. Mormons? Well there was the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
So, a handful of Native Hawaiians are claiming a dubious moral high ground which perhaps coincidentally is mostly based on a platform of "F*** You, Haole!" I could I suppose automatically accept their interpretation of things....
Or I could do them the honor of recognizing that Hawaiians are the equal of anyone and everyone else on earth, warts and all. That means that sometimes some viewpoints expressed by some Hawaiians are not going to be for lack of a better term, correct. Automatically agreeing with flawed viewpoints because of religion doesn't do anybody any good.
So, a handful of Native Hawaiians are claiming a dubious moral high ground which perhaps coincidentally is mostly based on a platform of "F*** You, Haole!" I could I suppose automatically accept their interpretation of things....
Or I could do them the honor of recognizing that Hawaiians are the equal of anyone and everyone else on earth, warts and all. That means that sometimes some viewpoints expressed by some Hawaiians are not going to be for lack of a better term, correct. Automatically agreeing with flawed viewpoints because of religion doesn't do anybody any good.