Of course, of course. The limitations of blog-city are daunting. Do we have to re-cap historoy on every thread on every site? I don't have that much time available. The cause and effect time streams of 6 billion living people and the histories of some 24 billion others is a Gordian Knot that only the Divine can unravel. So we hit the highlights. It reminds me of the Leonard Cohen song "That's the Way It Goes". To run it back to the thread topic- The right to attack-what gall!- Well, that's the point I was responding to. And my point is that anyone born onto this clinker we call Earth has as much right to be here as anyone else and has the right to place. Anyone who feels he has a divine edict that allows him to deprive his fellow man said rights because of his ethnicity, religion, opinion and so on, without due and rational process is just flat wrong! We have a fundamental, inalienable right to defend our lives, our family's lives, the lives of our community and our country. Through representative democracy we have found a way to deal with grievences without going to war and blood letting at every step of the way. We call this civilization. Its not perfect but its better than any alternative to date.

If a Theocracy is going to be established, it will have to be done by Theus! not mortal men. Until then, we need to go with the most just system we can manage, one that seeks equal treatment under the law. We need to talk about the disparities, not kill each other. Patience, forgivence, tolerance should be our most distinguishing characteristics. By the same token, we should not hesitate to defend ourselves and our civilizations' peaceful aspects. Yes, its much more complicated than that but its not "gall", its common sense.