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To: kosta50; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr; HarleyD; ...
FK: Sure one can be honest and sincere and be wrong. However, look at what the Biblical authors taught. They didn't teach murder, etc., as the jihadists do.

Dear Lord! Have you read the Bible?!? You must be joking, FK! :) Time simply doesn't permit me to list all of them.

You are confusing specific missions ordained by God of specific people with general instructions to followers. No where does God tell believers in general to wantonly go out and murder unbelievers at will. The jihadists believe their holy book says to do just that. Day and night.

6,732 posted on 07/29/2008 8:31:40 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr; ...
No where does God tell believers in general to wantonly go out and murder unbelievers at will. The jihadists believe their holy book says to do just that. Day and night

Islam teaches that it is the Muslim's duty to convert others the way Evangelicals believe it is their duty to evangelize everyone (according to the Great Commission which was specifically addressed to the Apostles, and by extension, their successors of their choice).

Historically, Islam has tolerated the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians), although as second-class citizens. Islam mercilessly exterminated any other (non-biblical) religious sect and cult

Examples...among hundreds others:

In their conquest, they would offer defeated Christian kings and nobility a chance to convert and be saved. Otherwise they were beheaded. Muslims are particularly sensitive to what they perceive as "Crusaders" for whom they have little tolerance.

When it comes to killing the infidels, the Muslims, like the Jews and the Evangelical Christians, believe that they are doing "God's" work and don't see it as crime but as "justified" killing. This should sound familiar to your side when it comes to biblical atrocities "ordained" by God.

Neither side "wantonly" murders; atrocities are "justified" as "God's" "plan" and the purpose of which is all for His glory. Thus the slaughter of Canaanite infants and even live stock is seen as "pleasing" to God.

Every religion "justifies" its crimes the same way. Whether it is killing for Christ, for Yahweh/Eli or Allah, murder and even outright genocide are twisted into "holy" work of God through his human intermediaries.

I would say that the Koran equals or even pales when it comes to the cruelty of Exodus, Deuteronomy and Leviticus. To me they are all the same.

They all read the same. Senseless cruelty; that's all.

There is no Christ in any of these.

6,739 posted on 07/29/2008 11:11:39 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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