(It is a mishap that my posts were carried over to this page, - see the previous page for the beginning)
What kind of people do have to post insinuations about Christians and moreover - about Christians of the far past - all the time when today’s Muslims are in the question? What kind of morality or fairness or absence of there of do they represent?
I believe that religious go through stages of development, and that eventually, Islam will have a reformation. Let me give you a couple of examples:
1) Christianity is about 1,000 older than Islam. 1,000 years ago, beheadings were common.
For the sake of my Lord, ----- Christianity is said to be 550 years older than Islam , - and for more than a half of that time Christians were beheaded, tortured, fed alive to lions. Muslims started from beheading. These are well known facts. It would be impossible for any decent human being to imagine how then somebody would be able not only to equate the two opposite histories, experiences and practices, but to put the burden on Christians, if the one who is a human was not reading such things on DP all the time.
Christian monks were moving with no arms, compiling the Bible and the NT, making books which are known to us as works of Aristotle, Plato, Euclid and others in the first place, when Muslims were moving with swords in the first place.
Beheading was one of the favorite tools of Edward Longshanks, and it was done in the name of Christ. During the Inquisition, millions were put to death. In the Middle Ages, the burning of witches was a common occurance. You don't see hardly any of this practiced today because Christianity has matured.
Again, these are all baseless accusations which are not even worth to reply. Christianity has not matured, but has been trying to bring cannibals to maturity for all time of its history, though, as one can see, not always successfully. The lack of absolute success and obvious step backs and retreats of Christianity in this struggle do not mean righteousness of cannibalism defended by so many here. The only real histories of beheading we know in the West are the events that gave the birth to adepts and prophets of the era of the Enlightenment and human progress - the events of the French Revolution. And they still try to bring progress and enlightenment upon us… those adepts and prophets of Madam Guillotine.
2) Judaism - Under Mosaic law, stoning to death is expressly prescribed for women who commit adultery, and for many other "crimes" too. You do not see Jews stoning women to death any more, because Judaism also matured.
Again, throughout history we don’t see Judaists acting in such a way. They started from hundreds years of being slaves, - like Christianity started from suffering, they were persecuted in all countries after the exile (I don’t know what is the Judaist term for the exile), they were immediately attacked by Muslims after the attempt to end the millenniums of the persecution and the exile, .... – and still in spite of all the well known facts - there are so many who equate them with Muslims.
They are absolutely appalling.