Radical Christianity as dangerous as radical Islam?

Question

Recently Rosie O'Donnell claimed on "The View" that radical Christianity is as dangerous as radical Islam. This directly implies that radical Christians are doing as much harm to humanity as are radical Muslims. Baring in mind that murder is naturally the most destructive thing you can do to humanity, namely because it destroys it, are radical Christians behind as many random acts of terrorism as radical Muslims? If so, Rosie is right. If not, Rosie is a fat-mouthed pig with the logic of a brain-dead newt. I want to know your opinion, supported by fact.

P.S. In my opinion, there's no such thing as a "radical Christian" or a "radical Muslim" because their beliefs are contradictory to the religion they claim to follow. Saying the people who knocked down the towers were Muslim is like saying Fred Phelps (http://www.godhatesfags.com) is a Christian. Just thought I'd point that out.

Answer 1

i have to agree with Rosie. Radical anything is never good.. all things in moderation is still a motto to live by.

Answer 2

There's bad people in every religion and both extremes.

Look at Timothy McVeigh, home grown AMERICAN terrorist.

I support Rosie, we think everything we do is so right, when our society is as screwed up as the next.

We have killed more people (civilians!) in Iraq than what originally happened in 9/11, which had NOTHING to do with Iraq, but "supposedly" Afghanistan.

There's bad people everywhere, and if we pick a handful of people to represent the majority, then yes, it would look as if Muslims were more radical than Christians. But in reality, it's just people being people.

Same can be said for Scientologist, although we don't know of any radical Scientologists, but we do know of KOOKY ones like Tom Cruise.

Does he represent the majority? Probably not. Just how his kookyness doesn't represent most Americans.

Answer 3

Your best problem is thinking that the KKK and The Nazi social gathering are Christians. The KKK have been portion of the democrat social gathering and nevertheless are. the american Nazi social gathering joined the democrat social gathering returned contained in the 60's. they're all socialists. they have no longer something to do with being a follower of Jesus Christ. Radical Islam is a Satanic faith only like Socialism is. So Radical Islam is greater risky than Radical Christianity when you consider that they like your soul for devil, have been with the aid of fact the Christians prefer your soul for Jesus. it is your decision the place you like your soul to finally end up.

Answer 4

Some examples of Christian Radicals over the years:

The Crusades: The European armies were saying, as they slaughtered both Christian and Muslim Arabs: “Kill them all, God will know his own.”

Europe's Reformation and Counter Reformation Era: Two thirds of the Christian population of Europe was slaughtered by Christians.

The African slave trade: Claimed the lives of 10 million.

The Colonial Conquests: Estimates for the number of Native Americans slaughtered by the Europeans in North, Central and South America run as high as 20 million within three generations.

The 20 th century's Western Civilization took warfare to new extremes: A conservative estimate puts the total number of brutal deaths in the 20 th century at more than 250 million. Of these, Muslims are responsible for less than 10 million deaths. Christians, or those coming from Christian backgrounds account for more than 200 million of these! The greatest death totals come from World War I (about 20 million, at least 90 % of which were inflicted by “Christians”) and World War II ( 90 million, at least 50% of which were inflicted by “Christians,” the majority of the rest occurring in the Far East). Given this grim history, it appears that we Europeans must all come to grips with the fact that Islamic civilization has actually been incomparably less brutal than Christian civilization. Did the Holocaust of over 6 million Jews occur out of the background of a Muslim Civilization?

In the 20th century, Rawanda, 1994: Witness the slaughter of 900,000 Rwandans in 1994 in a population that was over 90 % Christian

1992-1995 Bosnia: The genocide of over 300,000 Muslims and systematic rape of over 100,000 Muslim women by Christian Serbs

Answer 5

I believe a radical off-shoot to any religion will prove caustic to the populace within which it strives. Althoug such manifestations of religion are inevitable. The war between the cross & the crescent has been raging for centuries now. I see no respite in the near future. Any radicalism is dangerous.

Thank you.

Answer 6

Christianity is no different to other religious Faiths. The difference is that some people choose to alter the true message of their faiths to murder and torture others who they percieve to be less human than the rest of us, and to those who dont follow ther warped ideals.. Christ never gave anyone permission to slaughter anyone in his name . Christ said '' Love everyone as I have loved you.'' His message was clear. He was a man of love and peace. Anyone who kills in the name of their religious beliefs is a Murderer and an absolute Hyprocrate, and they are no way good people . They are doing the work of the Devil. So to those who accuse Christians of being evil doers they are talking a load of shite and are only looking for an excuse to put them down because they love and believe in Christ and they just cant stomach that.

Answer 7

Hmmmm, I'm really wondering how you can say that the people who were responsible for the 9/11 tragedy were not Muslims?

Well, Have a nice day.

Answer 8

Well, now, there was a little thing called the Crusades you might want to read about. I'd have to say that radical anything can be a bad thing.

Answer 9

Read the Q'ran. Then read the Bible. Compare the basic premise of both.
I do NOT believe in JOIN or DIE.
We will regret mush headed thinking.

Answer 10

Your thoughts are like saying there are no extreme right wing Republicans or extreme left wing Democrats.