Understanding the Ramadan Massacre in Orlando (David Wood)

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Read the biographies of Mo, Jesus and the Buddha, to a 5-year-old, and even they can see that one of these was an infinitely more violent role model than the others. Yes, all religions are stupid, but it's just as stupid to believe they're all as equally violent.

As Sam Harris says: religion is a nearly useless term; it's a term like "sports"; now there are sports like badminton, and there are sports like Thai Boxing; and they have almost nothing in common, apart from breathing.

Yeah, Islam is the worst. I mean it literally says that the perfect example of a man is a child-fucking slaver from the 6th century. I think many many people discount how important Muhammad is to Islam.

To be fair a lot of Christians were legal child-fucking slavers to the end of the 19th Century.

[drfuzzy]

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True, you can find problems with Jesus, which Christians magically filter out of their brains. But the core religious motivators are (a) the example of your prophet that you are meant to imitate and (b) the conditions for entry into heaven. In this regard, Islam is infinitely more violent than Christianity because (a) Mohammed was infinitely more violent than Jesus and (b) Allah promises heaven for those who die fighting in the cause of Allah.

And these are not a handful of unrepresentative loons, the terrorists have the more credible interpretation of Islamic scripture.

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According to the fairy tale in Revelation the best thing that can happen to a Christian is to get killed for his faith.  Then his soul is kept under the altar until the magic number of other Christians have been killed.  Jesus won't return until the magic number of Christians have been killed. 

Revelation 6:9-11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...EV;MEV;NET.  

So if Christians want Jesus to return they should want to get killed for their faith.  Who knows when the magic number will be reached?

And more lovely tidbits from Revelation:  what Jesus is going to do to those who refuse to worship him:

Revelation 14:16, 19-20
16 So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
19 So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses, for a distance of one thousand six hundred stadia.

Commentary posted with the verse: 

The enemies of Christ and his church are not destroyed, till by their sin they are ripe for ruin, and then he will spare them no longer. The wine-press is the wrath of God, some terrible calamity, probably the sword, shedding the blood of the wicked.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

We don't claim moral perfection for any of those other people. That's the important part. If Christians and Jews were claiming that a pedophile and slaver was morally perfect, I'd have the same problem with them.

Where do you draw the pedophile line? Mary would likely have been about 14 when God is supposed to have knocked her up.

According to the Babylonian Talmud Bathsheba was 6 when David knocked her up.  So if Mary made it to 14 she was an old maid by then.  David would have tapped her long before that.  BTW, the Babylonian Talmud has a lot of essays on how to screw kids.