Saturday, October 11, 2025

The following op-ed has potential right up until a certain point

Tyler O'Neil makes a case as to what partnerships the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk is now leading to among Christian movements, in example, and he has some interesting details to tell, but then, he fumbles with the following:
The line between leftist and conservative on abortion, immigration, and transgender ideology runs through nearly every religious institution.

As a result, I see conservatives among Catholicism, Judaism, some strains of Islam, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as more natural allies than many of my fellow Anglicans.
Oh for crying out loud. All this does is obscure the problem with another barbaric ideology, and are we supposed to assume that, because this is an ostensibly monotheistic religion, that the Religion of Peace is to be excused and absolved after all the horrors it's led to, including 9-11 in the USA, October 7, 2023 in Israel and the Bataclan bloodbath in 2015 in France? I'm sorry, but "some strains" is no excuse, nor should anybody have to make a choice between LGBT ideology as it's going today and Islam.

Obviously, the horrifying influence of LGBT ideology over the past decade is very bad, but that doesn't mean we should allow it to obscure the still very valid issues with Islam. It's a shame there's still certain writers who still don't understand that.

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