Peaceful Religion

faethor said:
History is littered with the bodies of non-Christians because they didn't believe in a Christian God. While it's not as significant as it once was it is still occurring. Again we've seen anti-abortion killings in the USA. As we've seen break up of the Hutaree who planned to kill police and civilians. NLFT in Asian appear to be giving Hindus the choice of Christ or death. Christian Identity is a racially movtivated terrorist group who has bombed mosques. These are deaths of people that don't share in that terrorists' particular view of God.
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I will take this opportunity to condemn those murders as well. Terrorism is not a tool of the Creator's love, end of story.

I don't know if 8-18% of US Muslim Youth supporting any type, including rare, is that much different than Christians. We don't have a similar poll of Christian youth. We only have a gut reaction to use.
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I think it's pretty obvious that such a thought among American Christians, with a very very tiny exception, would be considered against their religious teachings. But the issue is the roughly 10% of Muslim Americans who think it's OK to do a suicide bombing when you consider the numbers living in the US. 80,000 Americans think it's OK to do it in the defense of Islam should be a wide eyed moment of evaluation of where our society has gone wrong with multiculturalism.

As you know it wasn't the way things were sounding here. That's good as 90+% are peaceful. They may support suicide bombings a bit higher but they aren't doing it.

I agree any ultraorthodox literal translation of any religious book has issues. These groups tend to be more conservative and less liberal in nature. They are often less likely to view things allegorical in nature and demand a more ridgid conformity.
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IMO, religions are a creation of man's attempt to explain the Creator, who is above human understanding.
 
Dammy said:
I'm not the one using racist terms, you are. whyzzat?
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Whyzzat? You really don't get it? You're not just pretending? Lame, Dammy. Very lame. Maybe you can get someone else to explain it to you in pictures. I just don't have that kind of time.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Whyzzat? You really don't get it? You're not just pretending? Lame, Dammy. Very lame. Maybe you can get someone else to explain it to you in pictures. I just don't have that kind of time.
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Is that your explanation for using racist terms?
 
Dammy said:
I think it's pretty obvious that such a thought among American Christians, with a very very tiny exception, would be considered against their religious teachings. But the issue is the roughly 10% of Muslim Americans who think it's OK to do a suicide bombing when you consider the numbers living in the US. 80,000 Americans think it's OK to do it in the defense of Islam should be a wide eyed moment of evaluation of where our society has gone wrong with multiculturalism.
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The US Constitution has the seperation of church and state. People in the USA are afraid of Mulisms a bit less than Atheists. I wonder how many Christians would be willing to take up arms to defend Christianity should it be challenged. I've definitely heard Christians and Jews say they're willing to wipe all Muslims off the planet post-911.

IMO, religions are a creation of man's attempt to explain the Creator, who is above human understanding.
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I too think that religions are a creation of Man. They are an attempt to explain the unexplained and unknown. Which is why I think killing in their name are wrong. Though I'm not a member of any faith. I take what's morally right from my own decision not a dictation from someone or some book held up as a mantle of truth.
 
Dammy said:
Terrible! But the lone nutter isn't that big of a worry, there will be always a lone nutter or couple of nutters doing evil things in name of religion.
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Irish terrorism is anything but a "lone nutter". Try around 40 years terrorism, preceded by several hundred years of religiously motivated violence.
In the last two years alone:
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1. March 2009, Massereene Barracks, County Antrim: Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey are killed as they collected pizzas outside their barracks. The Real IRA said it carried out the attack
2. March 2009, Craigavon, County Armagh: Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, is shot dead as he and police colleagues answer a call for help. The Continuity IRA said it was responsible
3. February 2010, Braehead Road, near the Irish border: The naked and bound body of 31-year-old Kieran Doherty is found close to Londonderry. The Real IRA accepted responsibility
4. April 2011, Omagh, County Tyrone: Pc Ronan Kerr is killed after a bomb explodes under his car outside his home. Dissident republicans have been blamed
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And that's just the dissident Republicans.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
How about death to the rag heads, Muslims and sand niggers? That's been quite popular over the last decade - oh, but that's not about Christians versus Muslims, of course.
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At least the "beware the bearded peril" crowd have an easier time identifying who to single out for their scaremongering than in days gone by (I guess someone ostensibly Western European looking, such as myself, would doubtless be their worst nightmare). The nearest problem they've had in the past was probably differentiating Chinese from Japanese during WW2, if this informative Army issue guide is anything to go by: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/US_Army_How_To_Spot_A_Jap.png
 
Robert said:
Dammy's lone nutter was busy again last night:
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Despite being locked up at the time. Now that's what I call an evil genius:

One of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in prison.
Brian Shivers, 46, from Magherafelt was convicted of the murders of Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21.
They were shot dead by the Real IRA as they collected pizza in March 2009.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16637380
 
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