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I think comparing Christianity and Islam demonstrates a complete ignorance of both and even worse a complete ignorance of who Satan is and what he wants. I'm talking specifically about the idealogy, not about those that practice it. The difference is when Christians commit atrocities they are defying the words of Christ. Christ was a martyr who died because he would not defend himself. There is nothing in Christianity that condones atrocity, which does not mean it doesn't happen but it is illicit when it occurs.

I learned something the other day I would like to share:

For those who may be curious, I’ll digress a moment. The Third Commandment does not say: “Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” Not only is it beneath Yahweh to write such a trivial thing in stone, his name isn’t “the Lord.” A name can’t be “taken,” and “vain” means either egotistical as it relates to a person, or failed as it relates to an endeavor. In that the line was meaningless, Jews, and later Christians, falsely assumed that our Creator was telling us that they shouldn’t swear or say, “Yahweh.”

The Commandment as it was actually written in Hebrew says something that is vital to our very survival: “You shall not accept or advance in the name or character of Yahweh, your deity, anything that is deceptive or destructive.” Our failure to understand this Commandment and live by it is the reason Holy Wars are fought. Our tolerance of things that purport to be godly, but are instead false and destructive, is why Islam exists. It is why Muslim militants kill us. It is why the world is, and has been, in such a horrible mess.