(09-12-2012, 07:38 PM)Ashock Wrote:(09-12-2012, 05:54 PM)Jester Wrote: Do we similarly blame all of Christianity whenever any Christians go off and murder people in the name of their Lord?
Probably also worth pointing out that Libya is still basically in a state of civil war, in which the US intervened on the other side...
-Jester
Please tell me about those events. I do not consider a single retard, even a religious one, who bombs an abortion clinic, to be enough of a population slice to represent his religion.
Oh, and the Inquisition does not count any more. It's been a few years.
OTOH, look at the number of Muslims rioting. Or do you call these riots peaceful protests?
When is the last time you saw peaceful protests like that from a group of Christians or for that matter ANY other religion except the "religion of peace"?
Stop pretending that this is perfectly normal and acceptible, because that is exactly what you are doing.
Wait... So you don't consider the bombing of an abortion clinic to be "enough of a slice" ?
This outlines 6 murders, 9 Attempted Murders, 18 Bombing attacks / Attempts, and 655 counts of false Bioterror claims against Abortion Clinics.
That's... Just a slice? Violence that has happened in 4 countries, on 2 continents? That's.... JUST A SLICE?
Are you then going to go ahead and discount the Gay bashing, and the Westboro baptist Church, and David Koresh, and the Church pastors who have come out and said things like "Beat your child's "Limp Wrist", and "Gays should be put behind a wall so that they can die out"?
What about the "boot camps" that Christian Organizations run to "cure the gay?"
What about This?, Or this?, Or this?, Or this?, Or this?
What about a congregation of 250+ that wanted to take an offering on a Sunday morning (Above and Beyond their normal "Offering") for the defense of those responsible for the Christmas 1984 bombing of an abortion clinic in Pensacola Florida? For the record, I live in OHIO, You couldn't even say that it was to help people in the congregation. I was there. I remember it. My dad was mortified. I remember that the attempt to gather an offering happened a month or so later, and by summer, my dad had resigned from the church, and we had moved onto another church.
The difference between Christian Terrorism, and most Islamic Terrorism isn't "the religion". It's the culture of the countries in which it takes place.
I have a real problem with people who claim "Islam is not peaceful, Islam is EVIL! Islam is VIOLENT!" It really shows a disconnect between what you "think you know" and what is "real"
Islam is in the middle of a revolution that took that Christianity/Catholicism CENTURIES to go through, and it is happening at a rapid pace.
Throw in that both of these riots happened in countries that are currently in mass turmoil, and it's not surprising at all that there were riots about their religion being shit on by some idiot from the "good ol' US of A"
nobody ever slaughtered an entire school with a smart phone and a twitter account – they have, however, toppled governments. - Jim Wright