(01/24/11 7:26am)
Making unsupported, generalized assertions regarding Christianity's peaceful, unifying and culture-transcending effects on human history represents a callous refusal to consider that past events — such as The Crusades and The Holocaust, along with more recent incidents of evangelism like Terry Jones's proposed Quran burning, Westboro Baptist's anti-gay funeral picketing and the manipulation of immature minds portrayed in the documentary "Jesus Camp" — may be responsible for the anti-Christian sentiment referred to in last Friday's article. It should and will be noted that these examples do not serve to represent the entirety of the Christian faith (whose doctrine preaches, above all, love of fellow humans), but to demonstrate that, unfair as it may be, this extremism is likely accountable for current criticism of Christianity.