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I Love Islam

A religion of peace ????
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midnightsun · 26-30, M
Any religion can be used as a tool for terrorism
williamangliss · 41-45, M
Can you give me an example @midnightsun
midnightsun · 26-30, M
@williamangliss are you a Christian?
williamangliss · 41-45, M
Is that your example @midnightsun
midnightsun · 26-30, M
@williamangliss not exactly

But you didn't still give me where this hate is coming from
williamangliss · 41-45, M
Hate ??? I’m just stating facts not hate @midnightsun
williamangliss · 41-45, M
I’m still waiting
midnightsun · 26-30, M
@williamangliss not interested in a long discussion
williamangliss · 41-45, M
I wonder why @midnightsun
Rosejilly · 56-60, F
@midnightsun Christianity's been doing it for centuries. Crusades onwards.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Rosejilly Just how far up your ass is your head?
Rosejilly · 56-60, F
Abuse, Gilligan (very apt), gets you nowhere. Apart perhaps from the Whitehouse.
midnightsun · 26-30, M
@Rosejilly stupid responses . Not worth your time to argue since they're so polarised and fixated on an opinion

Ignore
Rosejilly · 56-60, F
I do like a good wind-up though X
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Rosejilly Your position that Christians were and continue to be terrorists. I don't buy it.

By the way, you referred to America as a "shitty country." You opened the door to insults first. Or what you call "abuse."

I am never the first to use insults or ad hominem attacks. You were.

For anyone reading the comments please keep that in mind.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@midnightsun [quote]Any religion can be used as a tool for terrorism[/quote]

That may be true.
These days, Islam actually is used as a tool for terrorism.
midnightsun · 26-30, M
@Budwick still you neither agreed not disagree with me

Do I'm not inclined to response
Budwick · 70-79, M
@midnightsun [quote]still you neither agreed not disagree with me[/quote]

My response was "That may be true."
What more do you want?
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@williamangliss
[quote]Can you give me an example[/quote]

An Example from Christianity of some lone wolfs:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/29/us/30abortion-clinic-violence.html
Also recent lone wolves like the one that did the shooting in New-Zealand and the Breivik in Norway wear the cross to protect "judeo-christian values". Most extreme right groups in Europe consider themselves protectors of "judeo-christian values".

An example of an open group that uses terror and wears the cross: Klu Klux Klan



2 groups in Jewish religion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikrikim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach_and_Kahane_Chai


An article about budhist terrorists:
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/full-text-of-the-banned-time-story-the-face-of-buddhist-terror/
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Kwek00 Any Christian that is violent is renounced by other Christians and churches.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@HoraceGreenley That's true!
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Budwick There's no tacit approval either like what happens in Islam.

No Christian in their right mind, uses violence in the name of Christianity with the approval of Christians.

For the other readers of this post I can also define tacit approval for you.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@HoraceGreenley That's the exact same thing non-violent muslims say. It's never the "real" X that does all the bad stuff. And for the violent people it's never the "non-violent" X that conforms to liberal society. Because that last bit is kinda what it's all about.

In the old testament however... there is a serious part where God (so God before he was Jesus and went back to God) kinda orders to clean a territory from all other ideas and cultures then the Jewish one. So saying that the God from the christians is fully free of the accusation of not-supporting terrorism and genocide... is really problematic to say the least.

The argument from a religious standpoint is ussually that "god" can't be measured by mortal ethics. But I think we can seriously measure him by mortal ethics, it's quite simple. You look at the text, you look at what is advocated, and you compare it to our mortal values. But I know religious people sometimes have a hard time doing that for obvious reasons. 😅
SW-User
@HoraceGreenley Not any more they don't, but they certainly have in the past. So does that mean that Islam can "evolve" to the point where violence is no longer committed in its name at the rate that it is or is there is something inherent in Islam that will always make it a source of violence?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Kwek00 Nonviolent Muslims do give tacit approval. That's my point.

I suggest you look that term up on the Google machine.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SW-User First, I am talking about recent history not 1000 years ago. Second, I have no idea what Islam will or will not do.

The Muslims to whom I have spoken have little hope for the violence to stop.