So YOU admit you do not know what Christians are taught, yet you claim to know what they think? Once again you retard since the enlightenment violence has been banned. Anyone that professes Christian support and advocates violence is ostracized and not supported by the religion. You are beyond stupid for not knowing that and for claiming that practices from HUNDREDS of years ago are still done today. meanwhile you deny that until the 60's the Democrats created enforced and supported Jim Crow laws. Tell ya what buck wheat, if you can cite an incident from 100 years ago and claim it is current then I surely can cite incidents from 60 years ago right?The interpretation of those verses is not now what it once was. Since the enlightenment the Churches have worked to encourage love and acceptance. Which you know or should know. meanwhile there has been no enlightenment for Islam. Where Christian main stream churches ostracize and condemn violence from those claiming Religious favor the Islamic religion ENCOURAGES it.Look dumb ass, the DIFFERENCE is that ISLAM TEACHES murder and slaughter and calls on its members to do so. Christians are NOT taught by the religion to kill and maim. You see dumb ass Christians about 700 years ago started to change the bent of the religion and began putting a stop to such activities. Remind me when Islam did so? Ohh wait, they HAVEN'T.
So STUPID the difference is one religion glorifies and encourages its members to murder none members while the other condemns and ostracizes anyone that does so in its name.
Doesn't it now?
This is conveniently lifted from a recent unrelated thread:
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Leviticus 24:16
Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Acts 7:59-60
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Numbers 15:32-36
While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Leviticus 20:27
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
Deuteronomy 13:10
You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
(all listed here)
--- and that was only specifically stonings, not the bits about bashing babies' heads. All that's in the Holey Babble -- right now.
As is plainly laid out in the post you quoted, sitting right above:
Comes down to this:
A terrorist claims to be acting on behalf of Jesus (Rudolph, McVeigh, the litany list in post 35), you wags go "he's a liar, he's an imposter, he's not a Christian!"
- Another terrorist claims to act on behalf of Allah, suddenly his word is absolute truth, pure as the driven snow because he's NEVER misrepresent that.
Double standard. QED.
Apparently y 'all would have us believe that Christians are liars and Muslims are always truthful.
That is, if you want to keep leaning on the blanket generalization crutch. No other conclusion is possible.
Wiggle out of that one, Fallacists.
oooooh, the INTERPRETATION now is it? Funny, right above you said, and I quote,
"ISLAM TEACHES murder and slaughter and calls on its members to do so. Christians are NOT taught by the religion to kill and maim"
--- and as I demonstrated that's blatantly false. Now you wanna beg off to a special pleading of "interpretation".
Poster please. You're busted from here to Tanganyika.
Remind us when Islam had its enlightenment?
Apart from Acts he is quoting the Old Testament which was for the people of Israel, Christians didn't even exist yet and neither did Jesus. Christians follow Christ and obviously the original 10 commandments, but are not obliged to follow much of the OT in my understanding. Unlike the Quran with its timeless exhortations to act, most of the bible is reporting who did what and not instructing others to indulge in such behaviour against any particular people, certainly not in the NT.
I do however own a Babble, and grew up Christian, so I already know they're inseparable. While some of the cited passages are in past tense as accounts of events, others are instructions in the future tense, e.g. "you shall stone him to death with stones" in the book of Redundancy.... uh, I mean Deuteronomy and Leviticus, to name two. And I have yet to have anyone point me to that passage in the NEW Testament where Jesus be all like:
"Amen amen I say to you, all that wacko crap in that other Testament, that's like totally wack, nomsayin'?
So chill on the stone pill, peeps, and lay back, git y'all's groove on and slide on the swingin' sustenance of serenity, can I git a a -men!"
-- Far as I know that never took place, so all that OTistic carnage --- still on the books.So chill on the stone pill, peeps, and lay back, git y'all's groove on and slide on the swingin' sustenance of serenity, can I git a a -men!"
Whether anyone in the religion actually practices it, and actually goes out and stones their neighbor to death for gathering sticks on the sabbath, is another matter --- but that same question applies equally to those who might follow Islam.
The poster above wants to maintain (a) that these exhortations to death and destruction do not exist in the Babble, yet clearly they do. He protests the Qu'ran unlike the Babble "encourages it" -- yet here's the Babble encouraging smashing babies' heads against the rocks and disembowling pregnant women. And when he's called on that he wants to go to (b) the old canard that Christians don't pay attention to that yet somehow Muslims do. Which is the same double standard fallacy they've been trying to milk all day.
He's trapped in a fallacy and he can't get up.