(November 21, 2015 at 4:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:On the contrary, biblical Judaism and biblical Christianity are almost identical to Koran Islam except for a couple of very small details. All three are death cults. All three preach intolerance and death to anyone who doesn't toe the party line. All three have crazy-assed bigoted nutty deities who demand that their followers kiss their butts 24/7/365 or else get tossed into the fire. There's zero difference between them.[hide Wrote:Thumpalumpacus pid='1119978' dateline='1448132947']
I disagree. Middle Easterners have a proverb: Me and my brother against my cousin; me and my cousin against the world -- meaning that internecine struggle will stay that way so long as the outer world stays out of it. If the West intervened in a Muslim sectarian war, they would drop their fight with each other and band together to fight the Western incursion.
They won't cease terror attacks against us right away, but if there were a Muslim schismatic war, the attacks on the West would peter out, because in a war, you focus your power on your immediate enemy; you don't scatter your attacks, because you dissipate your own military power that way.
Look at it this way: Yemen is in the middle of a bloody civil war. When's the last time a terrorist plot against the West originated in Yemen?
Not necessarily. Some lessons must be searing in order to stick.
By this logic, there should also be Protestant terrorism.
I don't know that the process hasn't already started, but is simply under the radar right now.
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Quote:That's what I'm saying, though. Christianity and Islam are not exactly the same, and won't react the same and have the same problems. The New Testament is not the same as the Koran, the same way that Jesus is not the same as Mohammad. Different religions, different cultures, different history, different ideologies, different traditions, and so and so on. I know you hate religion, but that does not mean all religions are the same. There's plenty of diversity, and not all religious people are going to act the same way, especially if they are from different religions.
In the Old Testament if you don't suck up to the God character you get stoned to death.
In the New Testament if you don't suck up to the Jesus character he will toss your behind into the fire.
In the Koran if you don't suck up to the Allah character his minions will kill you.
Christians want Jesus to return to rule the world. They forget that the fairy tale says that he will be an intolerant prick who will rule with a rod of iron. It's obey or die. No freedom, no liberty, no thinking for yourself or doing what you want to do when you want to do it. He tortures everyone, destroys the environment, kills all life, destroys the planet.
Guess what? ISIS is working on that agenda. It's doing exactly what the Christians want the Jesus character to do. According to the biblical fairy tale a rational person would consider the Jesus character to be a prick. But the Jesus fanatics love him even though he's just like ISIS. It has to be proof of mental illness.
