It does not invalidate anything Talisker has said.
Making up numbers out of whole cloth to make things seem worse than they actually are pretty much does invalidate his case because it make everything suspect.
The other fact that prots seem to LOVE ignoring is to take the times something occurred into account.
Was using leeches 200 years ago for medical treatment or inserting red hot pokers into wound to stave off infections barbaric? No it was state of the art Medicine at the time. As knowledge and times change cultures change.
Prots need to realize that times and attitudes about things change.Stop judging everything by such a modern view point.
Or perhaps let's not.
I was in my doctor's office this morning and they had (I kid you not) al jazeera running on the TV. The current conflict in Gaza was being discussed and "reported" on and it made me wonder, as they were showing bodies of women and children being pulled out of piles of rubble, should we condemn Judaism for the actions of the Israeli government. OR will we, like my Protestant parents and myself for that matter, say that Israel must defend itself against aggression and people who want to see the entire nation destroyed?
There are parallels between the situation in the Holy Land today and the history of the Church dealing with aggressive heretics. Lethal force is being used against a hostile but civilian population because one religion doesn't want another religion to exist.
I say there can be no more peace with islam than there could have been with the cathars or albigensians.