Copper Scroll Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 682 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 15 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/25/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2006 To the OP, How many Muslims do you know? and how did they show you that they despise you for being Christian? Do you have some sort of empirical proof that most Muslims despise Christians? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalcald Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,258 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 42 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/16/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/22/1960 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Yeah, I think it is easy to make ignorant and sweeping generalizations, and that would certainly be one. I mean we are talking about 1/4 of the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iryssa Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 117 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,860 Content Per Day: 0.56 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/13/1984 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I have to say that I have known muslims who have hated Christians. I wouldn't say that they all do, no. See, Muhammed basically had two types of teachings...the ones on war and the ones with a more peaceful view. The warlike ones are where it says things like to kill infidels. In the Muslim world these two different groups of teachings create two different kinds of Muslims, if you will: The ones who follow the warlike teachings, and the ones who tend to stick to the ones about peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about the man in Afganistan who may be facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iryssa Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 117 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,860 Content Per Day: 0.56 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/13/1984 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about the man in Afganistan who may be facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity? *nods* that definitely happens a lot. That's obviously from the war teachings...and there's definitely Christian-specific targeting the way they carry those teachings out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimR-OCDS Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 429 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/02/2004 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2006 There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. All it takes is 10% to carry out their hatred against Christians and Jews, to make it significant. The majority of Germans did not hate Jews, but it only took a minority of Germans, to carry out the Holocaust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yomotalking Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 154 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,838 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 19 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/18/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/29/1991 Share Posted March 22, 2006 How many Christians are there? A lesser number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Scroll Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 682 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 15 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/25/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about the man in Afganistan who may be facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity? What about the Inquisition? Groups within every major religion has done dirt. Some Christians have been guilty of crimes as terrible as any Muslim's worst. Crimes of this sort can be used to make generalizations about all or most adherents to those faiths or to discredit any religion. But are sweeping generalizations and the prejudices formed as their result really that useful or helpful? The crimes are to be condemned--not the criminals' religious affiliations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yomotalking Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 154 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,838 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 19 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/18/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/29/1991 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about the man in Afganistan who may be facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity? What about the Inquisition? Groups within every major religion has done dirt. Some Christians have been guilty of crimes as terrible as any Muslim's worst. Crimes of this sort can be used to make generalizations about all or most adherents to those faiths or to discredit any religion. But are sweeping generalizations and the prejudices formed as their result really that useful or helpful? The crimes are to be condemned--not the criminals' religious affiliations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovedya Posted March 22, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 375 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 11,400 Content Per Day: 1.44 Reputation: 125 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/30/2002 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1971 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about the man in Afganistan who may be facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity? What about the Inquisition? Groups within every major religion has done dirt. Some Christians have been guilty of crimes as terrible as any Muslim's worst. Crimes of this sort can be used to make generalizations about all or most adherents to those faiths or to discredit any religion. But are sweeping generalizations and the prejudices formed as their result really that useful or helpful? The crimes are to be condemned--not the criminals' religious affiliations. The only difference between the Inquisition and Islam's "Fatwa" is that, at some point Christians decided that it was probably a bad thing to brutally slaughter innocents in the name of God. Islam has never come to that realization. It's propagation has always depended entirely upon conquest. It becomes a real issue when the the crime and the religious affiliation become inextricably intertwined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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