Did the Christians of the Dark Ages throw out Jesus with the ruling churches? No. They cleansed the society of those who used religion as a means to control the masses and the result was the rennaisance.
When a people are imprisoned in their circumstances like those in Iran, the only thing they can call upon is their beleif in God Almighty to gain the confidence and courage to put their lives on the line.
If you think back to the scene in “Saving Private Ryan” of the sniper in the belltower reciting scriptures of bravery while he was shotting German soldiers while watching the tank taking aim on his position knowing he was about to die, these people have no weapons and still they resist.
Geez, let them scream the only thing they know! At least they are screaming.
You said — Did the Christians of the Dark Ages throw out Jesus with the ruling churches? No. They cleansed the society of those who used religion as a means to control the masses and the result was the rennaisance.
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There is a total and dramatic difference between what you find from Christianity and what you find from the government idealogy called “Islam”
And it’s in that difference where the *problem* is...
In that “government idealogy” that is called “Islam” it’s *hard coded* in the materials composing that idealogy (the Koran and the sayings of their Prophet Mohammed, along with their own writings on how to apply it) — that there is *absolutely no separation* between anything religious and the government. It’s one and the same. And if anyone tries to tell them that their Prophet Mohammed is wrong in that respect or that what the Koran says is wrong — there’s only one answer for you (or whomever would say that) — you need to be killed.
In fact, anyone who proposed to any adherent of Islam that they separate out the government from “going to church” (in terms of *mandating* an “religious order” through the government) they will tell you that this is against the teachings of Islam. Democracy is an *abomination* to Islam. It’s considered a work and a tool of Satan, trying to subvert Islam.
This is all *harrd-coded* into that government idealogy that is called “Islam”. And it’s a “government idealogy” because Islam has no other meaning for it.
In addition, in this government idealogy, the adherents are told to *lie* about their belief, in order to protect Islam, they are told to kill people because of what the government of Islam says, they are told that they are to overthrow other governments and nations either by subterfuge or by violent overthrow. These are things that the *adherents* themselves are to do, and they are to *subjugate* the entire world to this “government of Islam” by their own actions of violence, terror and murder and mayhem and indiscriminate killing. This is “built into” the very writings of Islam, themselves.
ON THE OTHER HAND...., you go to the writings of Christianity (since you bring up this particular one) and look at what it says about the “government” in comparison to the “Gospel”.
In looking at what the *adherents* to Christianity are *told* to do, themselves — there’s nothing in there about taking over governments. There’s nothing in there about creating *terror* in others. There’s nothing in there about committing violence upon others. There’s nothing in there about adherents chopping off heads. There’s nothing in there about the adherents of Christianity being required to stone people. There’s nothing in there about Christians forcing others to *become Christian* or else they will be killed. There’s nothing in there about anyone who leaves Christianity that they are supposed to be killed.
So, the governmental idealogy of “Islam” mandates all that, from its own materials, absolutely requiring its adherents to behave that way. And in regards to Christianity, it doesn’t even mandate that the Christian adherents “overthrow governments” but to live peaceably with others, and within whatever government they happen to be in.
Christianity does not mandate that governments be set up *requiring* everyone become a Christian, or else they are a second class citizen, have to pay an extreme tax, and/or be killed.
Islam, on the other hand, has *no separation* of government from the writings of the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed. It’s one and the same.
One is a violent, oppressive and murderous and evil system of government (called “Islam”), while the other (Christianity) teaches none of that and instructs none of its adherents to do so....