Mirabile Dictu! An Actor Who Understands What He's Portraying!

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, coriolan at w... wrote:
> As Viggo Mortensen preaches Peace, Siblinghood, and Other Things 
> Bright and Beautiful, a different theme is invoked [snips here] 
[by] Hilaire Belloc in his 1938 book The Great Heresies:
> 
> "It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that 
there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our 
grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between 
the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand 
years its greatest opponent....  

Laura:

As long as Christianity and Islam see each other as opponents, they 
both pose a mortal danger to the entire world.  Viggo is absolutely 
right.  Peace is worth struggling for, and there's room in this 
world for all of us.  It's prefectly absurd to imagine that there's 
only one way to find the infinite God, who has created us in our 
amazing diversity.  

I refuse to be afraid of Islam.  I know too many good, kind, 
admirable Muslims for that.  I'm not happy with some of its 
practitioners, but I'm not happy with a good number of my fellow 
Jews either.  The fact that practitioners choose to corrupt a good 
doctrine doesn't make the doctrine corrupt.  We need to encourage 
moderate Muslims to come forward and retake their religion, not 
treat Islam like the coming of the Black Death.  Respect doesn't 
always create respect, but we all know what hatred creates.