[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
I’m talking about the first half of the Christian holy book. You’re not suggesting that we can ignore certain directives in the first half of The Bible as we see fit, are you?
According to your definition earlier in this thread, that would make you a “Fake Christian”.
Perhaps you mean me? I stand by what you imply. There is no directive in the New Testament where God decrees we can jettison the barbarism in the Old Testament once we’ve found “civilization”.
I refrained from mentioning Christianity in this thread because it is about Muslim violence.
There should be no doubt that I would ever denounce one religion over any other, but Islam in particular is a religion that nurtures a culture of 14th century barbarism. Christianity and its atrocities has had its teeth and claws filed down by Western reason, Islam continues to hold on to Bronze Age myths as fact.
I was just using that as an example since religiously sanctioned violence is not exclusive to Islam.
Many Western Muslims are like the modern Christians in that the barbarism of their faith has been tamed by modern civilization.
Remember though, 400 years ago, Christians were burning young women at the stake for being suspected of witchcraft, so in the year 2400, we can expect there to be Islamic televangelists and dancing singing vegetable Qur’an cartoons. ;)[/quote]
Maybe when we drop PC ideals of blind respect for religion. The reason Christianity is no longer as powerful or evil as it once was is because people applied critical thought to it. Extreme liberals, and for some strange reason conservatives, have adopted this dogma that inquiry into religion cannot be applied on the grounds of religious tolerance.
I for one don’t think we can afford to do this anymore, not when a sizable portion of the Middle East supports suicide bombing. We can’t pretend these people are uneducated fools who have social-economic factors playing into their decision to go hurtling into a building at 400mph. The common trend is for these people to have university degrees and to be middle to upper class.