Tolerance Thoughts from the White Board - March 31

When I went to log in to Blogger this morning, I used Google Search.  When I did, I typed in "blogger."  And underneath this blog host's weblink, there was a news article about a blogger in Bangladesh who was murdered last week.  What makes this case especially relevant, along with at least one other one I have noted in this forum semi-recently (the Saudi blogger who was flogged for his writings), is the fact that the blog writer in question was attacked because of speaking out on religious topics.

Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

I myself have declared on one occasion, via this blog, on religious matters.  I did it in what I felt was the defense of my own faith.  I don't speak up on such things often.  I suppose in some people's eyes, I might be viewed as a coward for this.  I'd prefer to say I feel disposed to keep my religious affiliations and personal experiences to myself.  There is an oft-quoted line from the Bible about "casting pearls before swine."*  My religious practices are a somewhat private matter to me, and not for mass consumption or possible mass abuse.  But you decide for yourself what I really am.

*Editor's Note: The author of this blog in no way intends to call his audience, small as it may be, "swine."  Unless they are, in literal fact, pigs.  In which case...  I didn't know pigs were online.  Cool. 

I was thinking...

...that I should do a Thoughts post, since I haven't posted one of those in awhile.

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