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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
ItisaReligionofPeace wrote: My friend, you are blinded by your faith. There is not much of that going on right now in the world, thankfully, but it most certainly has occurred in the past, and probably will in the future. I understand that your mind Christianity = good, and Islam = bad. How could you live with yourself if you didn't see things that way?

I am not a religious person but that's neither here nor there.

I have a couple questions for you:

(1) Can you document any (as opposed to 'not much') systematic Christian warfare against non-believers in the name of religion, and

(2) what makes you believe that Christians will again persecute non-Christians in the name of religion?

ItisaReligionofPeace wrote: But they do kill people who they believe are witches. But they do conquer and enslave in the name of God. But they do torture heretics.

Where, which Christians are doing this?

You're simply attempting to deflect attention away from Islam's bloody present onto Christianity's sometimes-violent past.

But the problem today is Muslims, not Christians.

Muslims — not Christians — are waging a religious war against those whom they deem to be infidels.

In the final analysis it's boiled down to either us or the Muslims in a fight to the death.

Everything else is bullbleep!

63 posted on 02/01/2004 7:34:33 AM PST by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc
I've already told you, the Spanish inquisition for starters. It was very clear that you were tortured if you were a non-believer. The Crusades at varying points of time. My point to you is that right now it is Islam. Not long ago it was Christianity. Anytime you can convince people to do XYZ in the name of religion, you have a probelm...
67 posted on 02/01/2004 3:35:52 PM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace (I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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