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[quote=Anonymous]I can see your point in that there are nutters regardless of the religion. Nonetheless, it remains that between the two major religions, Islam and Christianity, Islam is far more the violent one in today's world with significant terrorism in many parts of globe and many countries. Trying to justify it by pointing out one or two insignificant Christian nutter groups doesn't work. Being relative here doesn't work. And I suspect you've probably never read the Koran or studied early Islamic history because if you did you'd understand that the core essence of the two religions, which boils down to Jesus Christ and Mohammed, are quite different. There's overlaps in what they preached but there's no disputing that Mohammed preached a much harder, much more intolerant message that had undercurrents of violence, or acceptance of violence against non-Muslims in his message. Apostasy, for example, is punishable by death in Islam (this is explicitly stated) whereas apostasy is not a theme of note in Christianity. Jesus was far more the tolerant and peaceful of the two figures. Jesus never called for someone's death and his message was based on forgiveness and tolerance.

Then there's the early histories of the two religions. Christianity spread through word of mouth conversion among the poor and peasants and slaves of the Roman empire for hundreds of years before it grew into a sizable political state force. Islam initially spread because Mohammed's followers took their armies and burst out of Arabia and invaded countries and sacked cities. That doesn't sound very peaceful to me.

I'm an atheist. I don't like religions in general but I've studied them and I'm the first to acknowledge that all religions evolve and change from their origins, both in good and bad ways, but it's undeniable that the call for punishment, death, violence against non-believers or those who "betrayed" Islam by not being Islamic enough is supported by origins in early Islam and the message preached by Mohammed, whereas whatever violence associated with Christian history (and there's plenty of that, oh yes) is in complete contradiction with what was preached by Jesus Christ. I once heard someone say that ISIS is the closest reincarnation of the early Islamic followers since then and there's probably truth to it. The idea that Islam can evolve and grow out of its current radical phase is something that I don't think is ever going to happen because of the way the religion is structured (it is much more intolerant and hardcore than Christianity - look at this way, the Catholic and Protestant churches battled each other for a few hundred years between circa 1500 and circa 1800 before effectively becoming tolerant of each other. The Shias and Sunnis have been battling each other for over a thousand years with no end in sight).

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because jihadists aren't liberal and have no interest in a multicultural society. So, you have that much in common with them, anyway. They, like you, have a hatred of cultural inclusiveness, banning guns, liberal do whatever you want values.

So, I guess you're more like a terrorist than you thought, eh?[/quote]

I'm cool with whatever but when you got violence built in to a religion that's not cool[/quote]

Islam doesn't have violence built into it any more than Christianity. It only takes a few nut jobs in any faith to misappropriate the teachings.[/quote]

Yes Islam does and the way it is written spurs extremism. When did the last Hindu or Christan tertiary attack occur?[/quote]
No response, of course. Interesting.[/quote]

Look, no response because we have better things to do than Googling stuff  for you. There are plenty of Indu attacks, often on Christians and Muslims in India. As for Christian terror, what about the Lord's Resistant Army in Uganda. Anti-Balaka Christian militias in the Central African Republic massacred thousands of Muslims in 2014.  The fact that these groups do not operate in the US does not mean they do not exist. Google Spanish Inquisition and you will see what was done in the name of the Christian Lord.  Christianity was not inherently violent but plenty of atrocious violence has been done by Christians throughout the centuries allegedly in the name of God.  A pope threatened to burn Galileo at the stake if he did not retract a scientific theory (Galileo did it, to save his life).  Another Pope apologized centuries later. The Catholic Church and doctrine is the same, the Bible is the same, the time and people are different. [/quote][/quote]

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