To: mercy
Well, I disagree with you. But it's much too big a topic to argue. I'd just make three or four points.
1. Christianity claims to be the fulfillment if Judaism. It accepts the entire Old Testament as divine revelation and claims that Jesus is the Messiah promised by the Hebrew prophets.
2. Christianity was not originally a powerdrunk, opportunistic religion like Islam. Jesus did not carry a sword or kill and enslave people. Muhammed did.
3. Christianity nowhere tampers with or changes anything in the Hebrew Bible. Jews are free to disagree that Jesus was the Messiah, but Christianity doesn't try to go back and retroactively change what the Hebrew prophets said. Reinterpret, yes, but not change the original words and facts. Islam does. The Qran frequently differs from the Hebrew Bible on important facts of fact and history.
4. Finally, I believe it can be argued that although Christians have at times resorted to violence like everyone else, they are not following religious commandments when they do so. Muslims are.
28 posted on
01/25/2004 2:17:39 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
I don't disagree with you and you need to reread what I wrote.
31 posted on
01/25/2004 6:20:41 PM PST by
mercy
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