Hey, well, no one likes being singled out, do they?

No wonder this thread has garnered so much passionate response.

As for "Christian values", I agree that turning the other cheek is supposed to be a Christian value...according the Christ...but it depends which Christians you talk to as to whether it is. In most cases...hardly!

You will find similar inconsistencies in Musilim values, depending on whether you talk to Sunnis, Shiites or Wahabbis, and depending of course on the individuals you talk to, as well.

Then there's also the fact that people frequently alter their usual declared moral stand on things when subjected to certain unexpected crises or pressures. They will then be accused of being hypocrites...which is arguable...but what they really are is something more prosaic than that: they are just human, that's all.

- LH