Maybe I'm just a little Baha'i.. but it seems odd to me to assume that any religious group (perhaps with a few exceptions like Wicca and Scientology - which I actually, contraversially enough, don't believe should be classified as 'religions') can proclaim that their deity(es) (despite the polythestic, monothestic, henotheistic, or any other -istic form of the nature of the deity(es)) is/are any different from the God(s) (I'll stop being overwhelmingly politically correct here) of other religions.
Allah, Brahman (and the many deities which are said to have shown the nature of Brahman), the Tao (The Way), the God of the Jews/Christians, Amaterasu, Krishna (in a Hare Krishna sense), etc. It all seems to be the same to me. A divine force that, despite differing views on the nature of the divine force, is the same throughout all religions. To me an insult in the name of a deity - no matter the religion - is an insult to divinity of one's own religious beliefs.
The hard part about holding this view of divinty is being willing to stand up for divinity despite what we personally see as being "odd" characteristics in another relgion's views of deity. Maybe it shouldn't be, but I, at least, tend to let insults to the viewed divinity of religions that do not quite conform to divinity in my paradigm slip by without saying a word.
I guess a lot of my ranting goes back to a day in College Writing where a student in the class insulted Allah. It was, perhaps, the first time that I personally felt attacked by an insult thrown carelessly at divinity that did not exactly conform to my ideas of divinity at the time.
Then again, I'm a Freshman with next to nothing to show for it.
There's nothing like College to remind you that you know absolutely nothing!
P.S. - I promise I wasn't trying to write this in the most confusing way possible.. it just ended up being that way.
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