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"Pat Robertson should read the parts of the Bible where it says to kill every enemy."

Excuse me, but exactly where in the NEW TESTAMENT does it say that?? Christianity takes its governing ethos from the NEW TESTAMENT, remember, not the OLD.

Unfortunately, the Muslim religion doesn't have a new testament, and they have NOT foregone the fundamentally violent core of the religion of Mohammed.

There are a million muslims, and most are peaceful.

So what? Doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of terrorists are muslims. I'm so sick of the PC, boot-licking, sucking up for the suppoesedly peaceful muslims, who have not said a friggin' word. I'm sick of it.

This is just as bad as labling Christians as the reason for Timothy McVeigh.

Do you realize how flawed that analogy is? McVeigh was raised a Catholic, but from everything I read, he never went to mass after his confirmation.

Please read the article linked-to in Post #3. Also, read AmericanInIsrael's comment above.

What can we do? For one, denounce the hatred and lies that are being spread by this "peaceful, friendly" religion, and it's adherents in the Middle East. Ever read any of the translations by MEMRI?

http://www.memri.org

The comparison is not so easily made. The Quran has a more or less consistent message, written by Mohammed, from beginning to end, concerning opposition to and encouraging violence against Jews, Christians, et.al.

The tendency toward encouraging violence actually increases in the Quran as Mohammed matured.

As a Christian, I find, in the Old Testament, several historic accounts of the Hebrews when a tribal people, believing God to have ordered them to wage genocide against their enemies; I find also several impreccatory Psalms calling for the destruction of their enemies. However, as the revelation of Scripture advances, moving onward to Jesus Christ, I find a much more consistent ethic of peace. Is there still ambiguity in some of the sayings of Jesus, in the presentation of Christ in the Apocalypse? To be sure. Jesus says he has not come to bring peace, but conflict. Jesus is presented as a conquering warrior in the Apocalypse. However, the great bulk of the New Testament truly sees in Jesus of Nazareth the prince of peace and a call to labor for the peaceable kingdom.

There is no parallel between the Quran calling for conversion by violence and terrorism and the Scriptures of the Christian. Jesus told Peter when defending him to put away his sword. Would that our Muslim friends do the same.

"Pat Robertson should read the parts of the Bible where it says to kill every enemy."

Could you please cite the scripture you are refering to? I know there were specific battles against pagan societies where children were being sacrificed, et al that God gave that instruction, but where is the instruction to kill anyone that was not Jewish? I guarantee you, it's not there.

I agree and Robertson offers religion for shut-ins. We would be amazed at his financial holdings. The sooner he and Jerry Fallwel get off the stage, the better. They actually hurt a party which no longer needs them.

The left wing press just loves to show them around, for obvious reasons.