StrangerThan -> RE: His Muslim faith (8/28/2010 5:57:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: truckinslave Which faith do you think is more likely to promote violence? Historically the hands down winner is Christianity. Far more people have been killed over it than any other faith. The crappy part of it of it is, having to go back to historical references to have any chance of competing with the violence initiated by islam today. The truth of the matter is that many religions, and just about every culture has a history of violence, slavery, and abuse. A correlating truth is that islam fuels the majority of it in recent times. WTF? Define recent times in a way that makes your claim true. last 100 years? The Holocaust is driven by a christian people following a tradition of their faith. last 50 years? Most of the violence world wide was driven by the Cold War which is as much driven by the Christian/not christian conflict between the developed and developing world as it is by the clash of economic models. This can be easily seen by the overt attempts to "christianize" the US during this period. last 20 years? Islamic terrorists have gotten a lot of press but the body count by christian terrorists worldwide is comparable. The body count caused by a POTUS supposedly instructed by god to invade a sovereign nation is far higher than his causus belli. The perpetrator of the holocaust was also stopped by by christian people following their faith. The remnants of which are still hunted to this day. It's that matter of cleaning up oneself that makes the difference. Turning the cold war into a Christian/non christian conflict is a stretch, by which I will ask you to name a point in time of American history where there was not an overt attempt to Christianize the US. By the way, the same thing was happening in Russia. Russia may not have claimed Christianity, but the faith was alive and well. If you want to dispute that, I can point you to a community of immigrants who can describe it to you. As far as Bush and Saddam, the justification for war never rested on Saddam's brutality. Either way, your figures are wrong. Millions of people died from Saddam's actions. The Iraq-Iran war itself accounted for somewhere between 1 and 2 million people. Outside of that his brutality and willingness to slaughter his own people are well documented. I have no love for Bush, but claiming Bush killed more Iraqi's than Saddam isn't just wrong, it is blathering all over the point in an attempt to sideline the violence coming out of islam.
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