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Swenani wrote:Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:Intelligentsia wrote:Swenani wrote:Read history and you will realize that Christians have killed far more people in trying to spread the gospel than the rest of all religions.
I argued in a different thread that Islam is only undergoing transformation/evolution just the same way Christianity did.There was a time where Christians (crusaders) were killing anybody who was not a christian with blessings from Pope(s).Catholics and protestants have killed each other over power to rule.
The only way to do away with violence and terrorism is to do away with power and religion for they are interlinked. Baas you have captured the reality very well. The Church was also the State - remember the Crusades,where the Pope himuselufu called for military action and later teh Spanish Inquisition. If you notice some of the cruelest human torture types were during the middle ages, exactly the cruelty ISIS is engaging in currently. But in the same breath it also suggests extremist Islam is currently where Xstianity was in the middle ages? Surely all this is irrelevant, the time mainstream Christianity was advocating violence has to be accepted as way in the past, over 500 years ago, people are different, perceptions are different, moral standards are different. We know better. The white supremacist still advocate hate based on strong christian beliefs, but this are just outliers Same as ISIS, Alshabaab, Al qaeda, boko haram etc I hope they are, however, based on their geographical spread, impact and influence, its difficult to convince a visitor from Mars that they are not part of mainstream Islam. "The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
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