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I think Islam is showing its true colors through all of this. Freedom of speech, tolerance and understanding are 3 traits this *religion* just doesn't understand.
I'll be sure to judge all of Christianity by the actions of extremists in that religion, such as the Westboro Baptist Church and abortion clinic bombers.
FWIW, Bin Laden is to Muhammed what Mother Theresa is to Christ. Both reflect the teachings of the founders of their faith. Ignore the truth about Islam at your peril. Muhammed was Islam in it's original form and he was pretty much a murdering, terrorist himself.
While I love a good religion-bashing - I'm not chiming in for that.
Mother Theresa is not at all comparible in any way to Bin Laden - their position in their 'area of specialty' - their purpose and focus in life - all that stuff - really divides them.
I'll be sure to judge all of Christianity by the actions of extremists in that religion, such as the Westboro Baptist Church and abortion clinic bombers.
While I love a good religion-bashing - I'm not chiming in for that.
Mother Theresa is not at all comparible in any way to Bin Laden - their position in their 'area of specialty' - their purpose and focus in life - all that stuff - really divides them.
Your comments remind me of the people of Pharoah during Moses's time...they use magic to fool everyone..what ur sayign is all a smokescreen..
you dont know anythign about Islam...continue on with ur rantings.
Please, tell me? There are many huge differences between the Christian Bible and the Muslm Koran. The Koran teaches that Muslims are superior to all others, that some religions are not even allowed to exist (all except Christian and Jew), and that in a Muslim world, Christians and Jews are 2nd class citizens.
Counter that
Are you comparing beheadings to trying to convert someone to a certain religion?Christianity says anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior goes to hell, and commands its followers to go out and convert people to Christianity.
Your turn.
Bin Laden is to Muhammed what Mother Theresa is to Christ.
Christianity says anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior goes to hell, and commands its followers to go out and convert people to Christianity.
Your turn.
This is an essential difference between Judaism and Christianity, and Islam. A Jew or a Christian can get all uppity and say he's doing it for God. But there is no scriptural basis for doing it and the argument has always failed when confronted with the source documents. Not so for Islam.
The Old Testament seems quite compatible with the violent tendencies of the wildest Islamists. No Biblical justification for barbarity?
"If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you." Deuteronomy 22:23
God didn't command any murders in Deuteronomy. Laws and punishments were given. The Ten Commandments do not contain any commands to kill.
Can't you read? These are God's commandments. The Famous Ten are not the only ones, would that they were. What element of this commandment is unclear or equivocal?
The Bible has a lot of violence, but it is presented as history for the most part, not as a command. The laws in Deuteronomy include capital punishment for some crimes, but while God commands the Israelites to kill everyone when they were conquering Canaan, he doesn't tell them to continue doing it to everyone or even anyone else. It records a historical event, not an ongoing command. No one cites Exodus or Joshua as justification for killing off all of the Arabs in the Palestinian territories, Syria, etc. The plagues on Egypt are not construed as permission to kill Egyptians.
The new testament confines its divine violence to Revelations, something that will come. Certainly not a command to do it now.
When reading the Bible it helps to look at and differentiate between historical accounts, prophecy (which frequently uses language that is less than clear) and ongoing commands.
As an example, the laws in Deuteronomy require a little thought. The behavioral crime or sin described is for the most part, still a sin or a crime. But the punishment was a civil punishment, not divine. The new Testament went on to clarify that civil punishments are up to the state, God will handle the divine end of things.
The Old Testament seems quite compatible with the violent tendencies of the wildest Islamists. No Biblical justification for barbarity?
"If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you." Deuteronomy 22:23
John 8 said:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Anytime you want to compare voilent acts by declared Christians and Muslims in the last 100 years let me know.
Its incredible people still make this rediculus comparison.
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