WHOA RIGHT THERE!
There is no moral equivalence, so don't attempt to draw one. It only blurs and distorts the fact that, if every Muslim did what his holy book required him to do, and every Christian did what the Bible (which out to be CAPITALIZED, btw) instructed him to do, you would have ultra-violent Muslims and ultra-gentle Christians.
Only because man is a LUKEWARM animal do we have some good Muslims who don't live the life their philosophy requires.
We also have a lot of Christians who are lukewarm, but the result of a lukewarm Christian isn't a murderous individual, it's an amoral or apathetic one.
The lukewarm Muslim is actually a nicer person than the lukewarm Christian (I've known a few), because lukewarm is a peaceful direction on the spectrum (for them). For us, it's away from peaceful.
Anyone else understand this?
Sauron
I just want to shoot down the nonsense about how "horrible" the Bible - OT - is. And thus equalizing it to the Koran.
The Bible mostly describes WHAT HAS HAPPENED. It's alot of history with some edicts thrown in. NONE of which are universal laws to go around killing (or even just torturing) everyone.
The Koran, meanwhile, gives universal edicts to go out and make People of the Book pay the "poll tax" (which often means literally getting your head knocked around as humiliation while you pay your tax) and kill all the non-Book people.
Huge difference.
Whoa yourself, cowpoke....no one is drawing any equivalencies between Christianity, Islam or any other faith....my point is that you have to remember that these are people, not religeons. Most muslims in this country aren't interested in following the koran to the letter. It isn't because they're "lukewarm," it's because they don't want to kill anyone or start a fight over their beliefs. They simply want to worship in peace without a bunch of xenophobes assuming that they're savages. Like most of "us", they're nice people.
On the other hand, no Christian is capable of following the bible to the letter. It isn't because they're lukewarm either, it's because they'tre simply imperfect human beings. Yep...if you find that person that adheres to every edict in the bible, you throw yourself on the ground and kiss his feet because Christ has come again.