Bloodier legacy - Muslims or Christians?

Question

Mark Uhl, a student at Liberty University, was in possession of homemade bombs when he was arrested at Falwell's funeral. He reportedly planned to use them against any protesters who might disrupt the festivities.

A Pew poll indicated that a small number of American Muslims, a minority of only 8 percent, considered suicide bombing acceptable under certain circumstances. The vast majority, 78 percent, said suicide bombing against civilian targets was never acceptable.

Most Christians, 65 percent of Protestants and 72 percent of Catholics, believe that torture is justifiable under certain circumstances. Nearly half of Americans, 46 percent, believe that it may be acceptable to deliberately target civilian populations in war time. An average of 75 percent of Muslims in Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia and Morocco believe that such attacks are never acceptable.
Christians perpetrated the crusades, the inquisition, the slave trade and imperial adventures too numerous to mention.

So...who is more vicious? Who has a greater "blood lust?"

Muslims or Christians?

Answer 1

It is the same.


There are people so twisted up in their 'faith' that they are willing to kill and die for it.


If they are born in a Muslim country they become Muslim fanatics, if they are born in a Christian country they become Christian fanatics. (I know it is a bit more complicated than that, but it is a pretty good approximation.)

Christianity has more members and has been around longer, so has a numerical 'advantage'.

Islam is a minority so there is some feeling there like they need to catch up. The stupidity of certain world leaders helps give Muslims a persecution complex which is giving them a big fanatic recruitment advantage right now.

Answer 2

All but one of the wars with a religious context in the world today have a Muslim context. The only one you could attribute to Christianity was Northern Ireland which has recently been settled. The inquisitions and crusades are inaccurately seen as a Christian endeavour. They were in fact a Catholic endeavour during which true Christians were often the victims, the ones being killed! Christians actually ended the slave trade. Martin Luther King Jr, a baptist minister fought for racial equality in the US. Education for all regardless of class or race was a Christian idea, as was charity which was not practiced by the preceding Greco-Roman culture.

Answer 3

How can you measure this objectively? Not only is one dealing with various strands of Islam and Christianity that differ on their positions of the use of violence, but one is dealing with various people with various levels of commitment to the spiritual teachings of their faith. So, how can we weigh up whether Christians or Muslims are the most violent? And what does one consider Christian or Muslim? Does Sadam Hussein a secular "sunni" muslim marxist go under Islam? Does Hitler fall under Christianity? Is this not guilt by association? And the crusades, which were so political, how can one attribute them to Christianity? Just like how can one attribute suicide bombing to Islam? Both contradict the teachings of their respective faiths.

But then again, this question isn't looking to be objective. It wants to simply put down those who believe in God.

Answer 4

You bring up the Crusades and the Inquisition. For some reason, those Catholics believed that spreading Catholicism through violence would be a good idea. It turned into a war of religion, even though the Bible says, ''Thou shalt not kill.''
For that reason, and many others, I'm not a Catholic.
Right now, Muslims are ''bloodier.'' They have been lied to by their leaders to get them to kill themselves, and many others. They kill other people in the name of their god, something of which really bothers me.

Answer 5

Who knows. There were belief systems in place and practiced centuries before either philosophy became available. As long as the global cultures and population are ruled by males, there will always be wars. Only the global realization females will govern using peace, support, recognition of equality and sharing as the only way this planet will be able to persevere.

Answer 6

If united statesa. continues to be an earthly democracy, all of us would be risk-free. i think of there is extra probability from people who already think of we are a Christian united states of america, and desire to "reclaim" united statesa. for Christ, then there is that the 5-10% of the atheist inhabitants will take over & make American an "atheist" united states of america and impose 2nd type citizenship on Jews, Christians, and so on. Former Prez Bush has already pronounced that atheists are not electorate.

Answer 7

I would say Christains just because of the Crusades where they went and killed millions of Jews and Muslims along with the Spanish Inqusitions, slavery, and other acts.

Answer 8

most muslims believe that fighting and killing is only allowed in self defense. there is one sect of islam, however, that believes that killing people from another sect of islam will get them into heaven (how pathetic and idiotic is that?), so i'm sure that all the terrorists you hear about come from the first sect that i mentioned. just letting you know, don't group us all with them. most of us don't believe in war against unbelievers etc.

Answer 9

Obviously, the "Christians" are the bloodiest. People are so brainwashed by Zionism that they fail to see the reality.

Answer 10

this test was bias, muslims and christians were asked different questions. They didnt ask muslims about torture in their religion like stoning to death, lashings, cutting off the hands of theives, etc.... In my opinion though both religions are pretty bloodthirsty, but islam moreso because it actually mandates warfare against unbelievers