I wonder why Tom Anderson and "Odintext" didn't do a search on 'slavery' or 'women as property', which are both endorsed in the Quran. He must have innocently forgotten to include beheadings, and burnings which are fates commonly prescribed for unbelievers. "When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly" (Quran 47:4)
It must have been an oversight for Tom not to search on 'War on unbelievers' which is OK: "O ye who believe! Fight the unbelievers who grid you about and let them find firmness in you, and know that Allah is with those who fear Him" (Quran 9:123) Those who aren’t Muslims must be killed: "Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them" (Quran 9:5)
Why didn't Tom do a search on 'kill the Jews and Christians'...the shared enemy of Islam and the leftists elites: "O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors of each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them." (Quran 5:51)
Why leave out searches in "Odintext" on wife beating? I wonder why?: "Good women are obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them." (Quran 4:34)
No Odin text searches on pedophilia? What? Islamic texts clearly reveal that Mohammed married a 6 year old, deflowering her by the age of 9. This is one of the reasons pedophilia is approved of in Islamic societies to this day!
I wonder why Odin text did not do a search on 'female genital mutilation'? Hmmm...this seems to be a glaring omission from a company seeking the truth? Before it became politically incorrect to criticize Islam, some very famous and respected men of history understood its dangers.
Voltaire: "But that a camel-merchant [Muhammad] should stir up insurrection in his village; that in league with some miserable followers he persuades them that he talks with the angel Gabriel; that he boasts of having been carried to heaven, where he received in part this unintelligible book, each page of which makes common sense shudder; that, to pay homage to this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him."
when George Bowden beloved sharia takes over in UK...huffPo will no longer exist. Wonder if he will be surprised when they come for his head?
Well there was that killing every living thing on Earth thing.
Nearly all world wide terrorist acts in the last twenty years have been committed by Muslims. End of story.
Absolutely untrue. There is nothing in the Bible that comes anywhere near this. and this is 1 of 109 such verses in the Koran
Quran (2:191-193) - “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing...
but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun
I read this garbage yesterday. Obviously written by someone that doesn’t understand the bible and merely took passages out of context to “prove” his point.
‘Why do the leftist global elites elevate Islam?’
Theyre self destructive. They dont realize theyre playing with a dangerous thing which will wind up comsuming them in the end. It deosnt have to be islam but anything really...sex, drugs etc.
As someone who has read both, I call BS. Whatever criteria they used to judge the ‘amount’ of violence is skewed at best. At worst an outright lie.
Muslim societies are statist, conformist, fascist/socialist societies. The people are easy to rule with force, dictates, welfare and bread and circuses. Islam literally means “submission.” Its members are ideal citizens for the progressive nanny-state.
Christians emphasize each individual made in the image and likeness of God. The state has its temporal power, but otherwise, has no influence over the beliefs or behavior of a true Christian. The state is superfluous to Christian culture and ethics. Therefore, Christians are the LEAST ideal citizens of the top-down, fascist-socialist state.
Of course if one ignores the distinction between the advocacy of violence and the report of violence and calls both “violence” one can come to the meaningless conclusion that there is more “violence” in the New Testament (and way more in the Old) than in the Qu’ran.
Yahweh was indeed a violent, genocidal deity, the stick for which apparently the NT God is the carrot. That being said, it was God doing most of carnage, not laying it upon his followers to do it for him, as Allah did. Since we can’t whack an invisible critter upside the head, the next best thing is to take his followers out. And it’s coming.
The Bible is longer than the kuran. Neither Christianity nor Judaism practices the things mentioned in the Bible. islam does the things in the kuran.
End of discussion.
Why the hell does the left want to trash Christianity and idealize islam?
Which group’s adherents go around cutting people’s heads off in the 21st century? That’s what I thought.
Discussed more perhaps, but in the Bible the violence and destruction are mostly committed by bad people doing evil things.
In the Quran its Mad Mo and his army of oraks doing it with pride.
Where does one start with this nonsense? Hermeneutics? Critical theology? Biblical theology in general? Islam rejected the critical process of greek thought at a seminal point in its history. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, etc., the critical, historical and systematic function that that thought played in testing, weeding out, and the process of interpretation through 2000 years of critical thought.
That is why hundreds of millions of Muslims are stuck in a quagmire of how to condition the violent words of their founder. That is why so many Muslims can do nothing but rely upon the unconditioned words of Mo and practice violent Jihad. Why there is a fundamentally problematic issue concerning the separation of the mosque and state...Too much idiocy in this screed...don’t know where to begin...
So sure, the Bible shows our warts, and states emphatically that sin will be punished. What it does not do, as does the Koran, is instruct its followers to either convert, enslave, or murder those who refuse to follow their Satanic god. Joe the Programmer left that part out.
I suppose Joe the Programmer writes Global Warming programs as his day job. Also equally crap.
So sure, the Bible shows our warts, and states emphatically that sin will be punished. What it does not do, as does the Koran, is instruct its followers to either convert, enslave, or murder those who refuse to follow their Satanic god. Joe the Programmer left that part out.
I suppose Joe the Programmer writes Global Warming programs as his day job. Also equally crap.
What is it about the Bible that has terrified rulers for two thousand five hundred years!
Antiochus IV Epiphanes tried to destroy that book of “myths and fables” in 175 BC.
Three hundred years later the Caesars released the Legions of Rome to destroy that book of “myths and fables”.
Then Mohammed tried to destroy it and replace it with his own, a fight still going on today.
Throughout 2500 years of history men have stood up and faced death to protect that book of “myths and fables” so you could read it and make up your own mind.
What book will an Atheist stand up to protect? Marx? Robert Ingersoll? Origin of the Species?
So what in the Bible is still so terrifying that around the world rulers and elite flee from it as if they had touched acid?
Maybe it is not just a book of “myths and fables”. Why not read it and find out. It just might scare the Hell out of you!
Safe books of myths and fables..
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The The Aeneid
The Labors of Hercules
One Thousand and One nights
Si-Fi books
Various works of fiction
Unsafe works...
The Bible
The Bible
The Bible
Since there is ultimately no right or wrong apart from G-d’s decrees, I don’t see a problem with Biblical violence . . . or anything else in the Bible liberals don’t like.
Sounds like a deliberately manipulative methodology designed to produce a pre-selected result. The Bible consists of 66 books - 39 in the OT and 27 in the NT - which include historical texts that recount the origin and lineage of the Hebrews, along with the legal texts that prescribe the law and punishments for breaking the law, as well as poetic texts that serve as worship songs and instruction in wisdom and morality, and prophetic texts, and instructional letters to the early church.
Most of the "mentions of savagery" in the Bible are simply recounting a violent history of conquests rather than commands or permissions to inflict violence on unbelievers.