[tcostell]

Well I guess the mistake I'm making is assuming that you are somehow trying to make Christianity and Islam seem equivalent by that view.

In my view, offering the emotional strength to take personal responsibility for your actions, and the political authority to punish those who made you feel bad is not the same thing, even if they both might appeal to someone who "has less". I believe there is a fundamental difference between encouraging someone to take responsibility and authorizing them to take retribution.

Do you mean to say otherwise? Is it your view that because both Christianity and Islam offer moral solutions to those with less, that they are therefore the same somehow?

[HitmanLV]

No, but that's close to my point.

Both Christianity and Islam offer something hopeful for those with less, who some might characterize was 'losers.'

But Christianity and Islam offer different moral codes, rituals, conducts. They are clearly not the same, and they clearly take their followers to different places.

I think both religions have aspects that appeal to what most people would call 'losers.' That's not a bad thing, in itself. And I wouldn't characterize Christianity as a religion exclusively or largely for losers.

[Motherhood IS a career]

I believe there is a fundamental difference between encouraging someone to take responsibility and authorizing them to take retribution.

Yes. We send missionaries to preach and educate and to convert through reason and spiritual motivation; they behead people, and send homicide bombers to convert en masse with the sword.