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To: Question_Assumptions

None of the religions or non religions you listed have as part of their belief to kill all infidels and convert the entire world to their theology by force.


155 posted on 11/05/2009 4:54:17 PM PST by Terry Mross (I hate all politicians...including republicans.)
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To: Terry Mross

Not all Muslims interpret their religion the same way just as all Christians don’t. Perhaps that makes them bad Muslims from the perspective of the Fundamentalists and maybe they are all just fooling themselves and ignoring their own religion, but they exist. And let’s not forget that a large number of Christians believe that all non-Christians (if not all people who don’t belong to their particular sect of Christianity) are going to burn in Hell for eternity and that has been used, throughout the ages, to justify behavior every bit as murderous as that practiced by the Muslims. Look up the Rape of Constantinople, the Albigensian Crusade, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, and I can go on and on, if you want. It’s not difficult to find anti-Christian and anti-religious atheists making the same argument that you are making, but directed at Christianity and/or Judaism.

Do we really want to be in the business of declaring religions, ideologies, and beliefs permissible or not and allow the persecution of people based on what they believe rather than what they’ve done? Really?


161 posted on 11/05/2009 5:02:35 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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