How can you even compare Christians to Muslims.?

Question

When you have "Radical Christians" or people who claim they are doing whatever it is in the name of God, people of the Christian faith denounce these radicals. Muslims do not denounce their radicals. There have been thousands upon thousands of suicide bombings done in the name of Allah, and it is encouraged. There have only been single digit abortion clinic bombings, and these people are quickly denounced from Christianity. One teaches peace and love the other teaches to kill. Again where is the comparison?

Answer 1

Non-extremist Muslims do not voice any opposition to their radical brethren because they still believe that when the entire world is under the caliphate, peace will happen. They don't want to be seen by the radicals as not supportive.

Christians of all sorts are already persecuted in America. We have to deal with taking down crosses, 10 commandments, and lighting up the tower for Ramadan, bet not for Christmas. Christians still want peace on earth, they are just willing to give up their radical brothers to get it.

Answer 2

Again, this is a racially based assumption. You cannot possibly know what moderate Muslims think, because the majority live in lands with heavy censorship, and you are mistaken, many Muslims have spoken out. As anyone can see, you are engaging in exactly what they do: My religion is better than yours. Don't you see how foolish this is? The leaders of our enemies have used religion to unite their militias and supporters, because religion is the best way to make people kill. Almost every major faith believes that 1)My way is right, everyone else is an infidel, or not "saved" 2) if you dispute my beliefs and don't convert you should either die, you are going to burn in hell, and you are NOT "saved". The fact that any of us, in 2007, can believe that God can only be called in one way, that one man understands god totally and can tell everyone else their wrong, and that you must join a certain club to be a good person is ludacris. Religion, including yours, has been the number one cause of murder since millenia. It is time for us to accept that we are all human, period, that God made all of us and he has no ego and doesn't mind what you call him, that the ONLY way to be "saved" is to be an ethical person, period. Christianity teaches peace and love for Christians, and at best, patronizing the "ignorant unsaved" for the rest of us, at worst, people have been slaughtered for not converting, and very recently too. You should become more literate on world history before you make such absurd assumptions.

Answer 3

First, many Islamic clerics denounced 9/11 and none of the Muslims I know personally are in favor of Jihad. Islam does not have a heirarchy like most Christian religions, but their spokes people are often ignored by the American press.

Second, If we look at the hisatory of Christianity with the crusades, the Inquisition, the Cathar slaughter, the Spanish expulsions of Jews and Muslims, the witch hunts, the KKK, the IRA, all the way thru to Pat Robertson calling for the death of Supreme Court members and Abu Ghraib, I'd have to say Christianity is ABSOLUTELY analogous to Islam. Both religions have their radical fringe who occassionally goes on an unholy tear. And both religions can be looked on unfairly by the other side for it.

Answer 4

I don't normally compare them, but if you wish a comparison I will make one. There are Christians, quite a few of them in this country, who take their religion to the extreme and pervert it to the extent that they are quite rightly thought of as fanatics. But they don't fly planes into buildings to make their point, and thank God for that. Instead they seek to insert their own constipated view of morality into all of our lives by politicizing their views and attempting to put them into law we all have to follow. This has proven to be manageable. For example, even conservative Republicans weren't willing to shame our Constitution by adding discrimination to it.

The only real comparison lies in the fanaticism they reach in the name of their religion. It's just expressed differently. And it's true that other, more reasonable Christians do not support most of their efforts when it comes to their extremism. I too have been wondering for a very long time where the outrage is from the "peaceful" Muslim world.

Answer 5

You raise a very good point. It is, however, necessary to compare the two to point out the differences between them.

There is danger in the radicals of any religion. Simply because people become enchanted by perception that they are doing the higher good. These people are capable of untold evils.

Some groups do encourage their radicals. These groups are radicals themselves.

Answer 6

You, sister, are one ill doggy. What makes you human and those people no longer? Is it your judgemental techniques-set or in basic terms your good fortune to have been born interior the richest area of the worldwide? perhaps Christians do no longer brazenly help the KKK or Timothy McVeigh, yet they're notably solidly in the back of the chicken-hawks in Washington who deliver the infants of the undesirable off to combat an unlawful conflict it relatively is all approximately stealing the oil from distant places lands to inflate the earnings of the huge firms. effective, the violence perpetrated via Muslim extremists and terrorists is misguided and innocents go through, yet so is the violence finished to their people for the previous 50 to a hundred years over petroleum. what proportion Arabs/Muslims died on the arms individuals puppet dictators inclusive of Shah Reza Pahlavi (Iran), the abode of Saud (Saudi Arabia, or is it Sodom Arabia?) and Saddam Hussein (the former chief of Iraq positioned into skill via the CIA and propped up via Donald Rumsfeld and different Reagan administration officers formerly being deposed via Donald Rumsfeld and different Bush administration officers). i'm so bored with ignorant yahoos insulting the humanity of people in different worldwide places through fact you think of you're entitled to what they rightfully very own.

Answer 7

You can, but what does it accomplish.

It doesn't matter what belief system one belongs to, Christian, Muslim, and from what I see around here, even political party affiliations.

There are player haters in every one of them. Those few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us. Trying to eschew their beliefs on the rest of us and trying to take those down who oppose their beliefs.

Radical is radical and you cannot reason with them.

Answer 8

Moderate Muslims do denounce radical Islam and suicide bombings.

Right Wing Christians appear to believe that we should go to war with every Muslim Country in the world. Right Wing Christians are hung up on the idea that America is "Christian Nation," which is not a scriptural idea (we are *New Testament Christians*) and has questionable value historically.

Is Radical Islam wrong? Absolutely. Is Islam wrong? I believe that's true. I believe anyone who doesn't accept Christ as Lord and Savior is bound for a sinner's hell.

But there are Christians who are in the extreme as well, and they aren't lining up with scriptural principles.

"But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you"

Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5:44

Answer 9

Christians don't have that much to be upset over. Sure, there's abortion and gay marriage that still piss off "value voters," but hardly anyone is going to resort to violence on these issues.

Muslims have around 200,000 foreign (mostly Christian) troops occupying their lands.... and that's not counting Israel. Abortion clinics versus foreign occupation? Which do you think would motivate suicide bombers?

You can't say that "one teaches peace and love the other teaches to kill." That's simply not a fair comparison. Have you ever read the Old Testament?

Answer 10

Quite true. Christianity is the practice of following the eaxmple of Jesus Christ, while Islam is the practice of following Muhammad. If we believe that both accounts are completely true, Jesus preached peace and was the Son of God therefore Christians who advocate violence are not true Christians (or at least have messed up views). Muhammad preached violence and extermination without mercy and claimed to be the brother of Jesus (born several hundred years later), Muslims who do not kill nonbelievers cannot be considered true Muslims.

They are very different beliefs, and should never be promoted as even remotely similar.