It's still important to learn from history. Incredibly terrible things were done in the name of the church during the inquisition, the witch trials, etc. Even today, the Catholic church has clearly made it obvious that they consider themselves above the law with the way they've handled the child abuse cases.
Definitely not saying that I think we have to worry about the modern Christian based faith murdering people......but at the very least I think all faiths should be tolerant of each other. Intolerance is what breeds violence, and from what I understand, the majority of Muslims do not in any way condone the actions of terrorists.
I found this pic on facebook....since I was born and raised as a Christian, I have no idea if it's true...but I wonder if it is?
I get what you're saying but does ANYONE not know that Christians went around murdering and plundering throughout their history? I mean, it's not really new information. The difference to me is, when they were running buckwild killing people left and right in the name of God, alot of people still thought the earth was flat, we drained people's blood when they were sick, people died constantly from what we considered the tiniest of illnesses, and in general, the world as a whole was a completely ignorant, backwards, and unsophisticated place. Now we get people that have college educations, drive fancy cars, know what a plane is, have seen modern hospitals save people from all manner of disease with the miracles of modern medicine, and have experienced the incredible power of the information age and internet cutting off people's heads in the name of God because they are upset that broads show too much ankle.
Many Muslims around the world have shown a laughably incongruous adherence to religion and daily modern life. Like our bomber buddies: I'm gonna be on welfare, smoke pot, fuck chicks, wear Gucci, listen to rap, and oh by the way I'm going to eviscerate small children with nail bombs after repeatedly throwing tantrums at the Mosque because people aren't strict enough adherents to the tenets of my religion. There isn't much to learn there in my opinion. Christianity and Judaism have pretty much totally assimilated into modern society. You won't find too many of either of those groups adhering to literal interpretations of their bibles at this point. And those that do are basically ostracized from polite society. Christianity gets pissed on each and every single day in this country (quite literally at times) and people shrug their shoulders, or turn the other cheek if you will, and go on with their lives. Jews have it even worse. They get fuckin blamed for everything. :lol: The only fear I have of dealing with Jews is being on the wrong side of a deal.
That pic is bullshit. I know I've blathered on about this before but when I lived in London I knew Saudis, Syrians, and people from other Gulf States that all thought Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein was a great guy because he was fucking with America (and this was 15-20 years ago). Same shit. Fast cars, expensive clothes, every weekend at the club. Think it's amusing when Islamic nutbags exact revenge globally for slights to your little book. Of course, all these people subsequently come to the US to go to east coast colleges. Find me some upper crust Christian Americans that think "Yeah, it's awesome that those random African Christians participate in bloody genocidal civil wars with those African Muslims" on the basis of some type of religious brotherly love. Unlikely on the whole I'd say. The temptation, especially for liberals, is to say "oh well you're a white anglo saxon and of course you think the 'other' is evil." I'm not a religious person. I can count the number of times I've been in church on one hand, and I've never been a participant, so I just assess based on what is obvious.
My personal challenge to people that think that the Islamic fundamentalism problem is wildly overstated or that it's a tiny subset of the overall Muslim population is this:
Look at the list of largest Muslim populations by country. How many of those countries would you feel comfortable walking around in jeans and a t-shirt wearing a nike hat if you were a white guy, or a Jew?
It's not like you're a guaranteed murder victim in most of them, but you'd definitely think twice about many of them. Anybody up for a road trip to Pakistan? There's about 180,000,000 Muslims there. How many of them would you start sweating if they were eyeballing you. A lot more than the handful of Westboro Nuts, right? Look at a place like Egypt. 80,000,000 Muslims over whom liberals can't stop fawning because of their cell phone uprising, white broad from CNN wanders into the crowd, gets her clothes torn of and fingered/sodomized by 50 different people for being an infidel. Shit is what it is.
