My religion, Christianity, keeps getting bashed here, and it almost always deserves it.
The problem is the tendency to use other religions to do the bashing. Please stop using comparisons to elements of other traditions to criticize bad behavior by American Christians.
That dude at the Beto rally with guns is not an American Taliban. He is a Christian pastor.
Make every religion, even mine, own its own worst elements.
I’ll start the list of words and phrases that we need to stop using. Others can add to the list.
Christian Jihad
Christian Taliban
Talibengelical
Almost anything with “Pharisee” in it