Tim wrote:
On Mar 26, 12:24 pm, wrote:
On 3/26/2011 1:08 PM, Harryk wrote:









Canuck57 wrote:
On 26/03/2011 9:49 AM, Harryk wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:
If Islam is a religion of peace, then how come so many people die in
the
name of Islam?
If Christianity is a religion of peace, then how come so many people die
in the name of Christianity?
At last Christianity has a part about respecting thy neighbors. Never
saw that anywhere in the Koran. Even if it was in the Koran it would be
superseded by the "infidel" parts as the Koran does very much classify
people in a preferential way.
I am an agnostic, borderline atheist. Personally the only value religion
cn offer mankind is teachings of peace for those minds not big enough to
comprehend more. I am not anti nor pro religion, just that the bible did
help us mature as a species. But mature enough to survive in the long
term view, if falls very short.
Even various factions of Islam kill each other. You could win the war
just by letting them go at themselves. No US intervention required.
That's not responsive to the question.
My posit is that both Islam and Christianity are responsible for many,
many deaths, and that in regard to "committing murder" in the name of
their god, there's really no difference between the two.
Oh, and various factions of Christianity kill or have killed each other,
for the sake of "their" interpretation of Christianity.
Christians like to claim a higher moral ground for their religion.
History says that's hogwash.
"More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall
hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the
great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's
why all this has happened.

Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of
our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected
hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight
volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by
that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as
possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some
sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to
repeat: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be
understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of
what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a
process of universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify
briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I
would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat
once again: Men have forgotten God."

- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Yup!


As I see it, the problem is not god, it is religion and what man does in
the name of what or who he believes is god. The world, I believe, would
be far better off without what we call religion.