Why do people always say..."so do Christians" when you ask a question about Muslims?

Question

Jesus and Christians gets parodied ALL THE TIME on Southpark, Mad TV, The Simpson's, various movies, and the Colbert Report. No one gets shot, stabbed or blown up. They aren't marching on the Pentagon and movie studios over it. If they find it sacreligious, they turn the channel, put the paper away...etc.

Anytime you open the paper, who is out en masse invoking terror in the NAME OF THEIR BELEIF? Sure, the Amish guy shot up a school house, but he didn't go in there representing for Jesus either and claim Jihad on the students.

I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN but I am tired of hearing people say this to me. Please, show me an article where some Christians, or hell, ANY major religion representative killed anyone in the name of Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, whomever in the past 6 months.

Are you just being cynical and attempting to be liberal minded? I'm black, but I'm not offended that blacks are the biggest minority population in US prisons. It's the truth.

Answer 1

I agree 100%.
I find it (tragically) hilarious that the radical Muslim's response to the Pope's comments was to threaten death to him and everyone else who is not a Muslim. uhhhh... Isn't that what the Pope's quote said that offended them so much????
Historically, there have been so many murders and wars fought over religious differences-- ignorant and evil people think they are following "the only true religion". No matter what you call yourself, I imagine God totally rejects you. Consider: If He IS God, He is the "father" of all people. How would any father or mother feel if their kids killed each other, especially if they said it was FOR the parent?

BTW the guy (may there be some sort of hell for him to eternally burn in!) who shot those innocent little Amish girls was not Amish himself. Apparently he just chose that school because it was so small and the kids especially defenseless. You know, hunt pet bunnies, not tigers who might fight back.
I try to be an optimist and tolerant of all kinds of beliefs, but jeez, what is going on in this world???

Answer 2

First off, the murderer who killed those Amish children, was not Amish himself.

As far as the question, people are afraid of seeming to be non-politically correct, so they don't want to admit that an entire religion might actually be considered evil.

It's like the Westboro Baptist Church, or whatever they're called, the ones who protest at soldier's funerals. They use the word "baptist" to detract from the fact that what they do is not in the least chrisitian. People are afraid of seeming to attack any religion. I'm christian, and I gotta tell you, these people don't even know what christians are about, yet they use His name at every opportunity. You'll see that with the KKK too, they like to throw God's name around. They spread hate, and use His name to do it. But you're right, they don't go around murdering innocent people on a daily basis (at least not anymore), they obviously have a few scruples left, if not many. Either that, or they finally figured out that no matter how often they tried to blame their evil on God, we knew better.

Answer 3

"it will inflame tensions." Yeah, acts like that do tend to piss people off. that's what they're designed to do. "...warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf." you do no longer comprehend who Rauf is, do you? He has long gone to Afghanistan 4 situations- two times below Bush and two times below Obama- as a Muslim helping OUR ingredient in an attempt to bridge the hollow between peoples. i'm guessing which you have no longer any info to your declare that he's a 'sharia-peddler.' i'm additionally guessing which you do no longer even comprehend what sharia regulation is or what it includes. "basically some months in the past in Kashmir, truthful Muslims rioted over what they concept replaced right into a mosque depicted on underclothes offered by using highway distributors. The mob close down companies and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. in spite of the undeniable fact that it grew to become accessible replaced into no choose for Allah's avengers to get their holy knickers in a gaggle. The alleged mosque replaced into particularly a construction such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral. A Kashmiri regulation enforcement respected later concluded the protests have been "premeditated and arranged to vitiate the ambience."..." Ah, so we could continually hunch to the point of Muslim extremists! What a staggering theory! :D

Answer 4

Not in the last six months. However, in the past there has been some demonic influenced group/person claiming that a voice/voices had spoken to them to kill these people. For example the Son of Sam after hearing his interview, I must conclude it was not the voice of God but a demon. Now, he has crossed over to Christianity. Another, Jim Jones, in Guyana, a couple of his followers had survived, saw his strange behavior and was compelled that Mr. Jones was dabbling in the underworld/acult, which drove him to commit this mass murder. The Bible says in James 1:27 "Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress, and refusing to let the world corrupt you". So if your religion is lined up with the word of God then it is pure and if not, it's corrupted.

Answer 5

To justify bigotry. As you said, Christians are the number one group to be made fun of, yet we don't go out and destroy those who hurt us. People say that we're forcing our religion down their throats, and yet most of what is pointed out has been taken away from us. There is no prayer in schools, the only "religion" courses I've seen have been electives (meaning the kids can take it if they want), the 10 commandments are removed from public places, and abortion is legal. If Christians talk of their religion, they are forcing it down another's throat, yet if someone talks against christianity, they are "exercising their right". Christianity is among the more peaceful religions but the only thing some people focus on is the past. They bring up the crusades and such as examples of how we're violent, but, as you pointed out, we haven't done any religious killings in recent history. And I am fully aware that not all Muslims are violent as media is portraying them to be, there will be a few nuts in every religion.

Answer 6

I have always wondered this too, especially because I'm a Christian. Why is it that we as Christians are always the ones put down, made to stop our outdoor Christian celebrations; Why are we the ones who are so looked down on by everyone who is not one, bur if a person believes in any other religion, everyone says "GOOD FOR YOU!"
It's sad, really. I can't provide you with an answer, because there is no plausible one.

Answer 7

Ok...how many "Islamic Terrorists" actually claim to be killing in the name of Allah?
I'm not saying thats right, though.
Islam doesnt teach killing of innocent people. Those who do, do not follow Islam properly, and certainly cannot be called Muslims.

They have their reasons, like because the USA attacked Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel occupied Palestine, Lebanon, and stuff like that.

If you say Israel attacking Lebanese civilians is justified because they supported Hizbullah, then 9/11 would also be justified because Americans support their troops and their governments invasive foreign policy. Its WRONG either way!!!

Answer 8

That's true, no denying it, Christianity is very much like the Muslim religion though. It is monotheistic. And more so, in the past, through extreme groups like the spanish inquisition, there was violence in the name of god. All religions go through these stages, but Muslim is the only one going through it right now.

Answer 9

The problem is that your media only brings to you the negative images from our societies and focuses on Bin Laden as he was the religious leader of Muslims..That is why Muslims feel that they are in a defensive situation always and try to defend themselves that way..

Answer 10

I will agree that you have a slight point.

However, Christians in America *do* try to inflict their beliefs on everyone else through education (Bible-as-literature classes, prayer in classes, "intelligent design", abstinence-only), law (same-sex marriage), censorship (taking books out of libraries), public displays (ten commandments in the courthouse), etc.

I heard something really interesting recently--that Christian Scripture has nothing to say about how to act as part of a majority, and the Koran has nothing to say about how to act as a minority.