[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]reddog6376 wrote:
[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]reddog6376 wrote:
[quote]smh23 wrote:
I would consider the Old Testament to be a “violence-positive” text, which would put the percentage of Christian Churches in the US which teach and support violent texts at 100.[/quote]
Really? I’ve sat in a Christian Church ~40 times/year for the last 40 years, and I’ve never heard anyone recomend, encourage or even condone violence. I think you are ignorant as to what the Old Testament says and take individual versus out of context.[/quote]
I am in no way ignorant as to what the Old Testament says. It is literally full of bloodshed. It describes the comings and goings of a violent God and His violent creation.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the average Christian Church is actually violent. I am simply pointing out the fact that a house of worship may harbor violent texts without necessarily being a establishment which explicitly or actively condones violence itself.[/quote]
I think your analogy is all wet. Yes, the Bible, Torah and the Koran contain stories of violence (without getting into the the meaning or context of them), but this study is talking about liturature other than their respective holy books, which advicate violence. Not to mention that 58% of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad. How many Christian preachers advocate violence? To compare this to Christianity because Leviticus says adulterers should be put to death is absurd and moral relativism at it’s worst.
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Moral relativism is when you say that your violent holy book is OK and someone else’s isn’t. I’m an absolutist in this respect: violent primitive drivel is violent primitive drivel, whether you’re in Arkansas or Islamabad.
That said, I do believe that Islam is an especially dangerous and violent religion, and that Christianity promotes, on paper certainly and in practice often, a much more peaceable world view.[/quote]
The diffeernce being VERY few Christians are taught that they are to adhere to any violent instructions in the Bible. They view those (and rightly so) as instructions towards people who have long since past and applicable only to their own people and not ‘outsiders’(which is why I said I suspected you are ignorant as to what the Old Testament says and take individual versus out of context). With Islam, they are encourages and told it is their duty to carry out the vioence their religion condones, espicially towards infidels. Is the difference too subtle for you?