(June 26, 2016 at 11:57 am)Cato Wrote: Disciple,
Your reading comprehension skills need work. Nowhere did I defend Islam nor did I claim the existence of a Christian theocracy. In fact I was quite clear regarding the reason none exist.
Your 'few bad apples' No True Scotsman defense is ridiculous. Abrahamic religious adherents ascribe to special texts that are openly hostile to homosexuals. The few bad apples can simply point to the text to support their position, the 'others' such as yourself must rationalize a position contrary to what your sacred text suggests.
No, you didn't openly defend Islam directly fair enough, but, you pointed to the fact that lgbt people would be treated as badly in a Christian theocracy. I felt that by pointing to circumstances that don't exist you were defending Islam by not dealing with what reality actually is in the world. And yeah, its a fact that its written in the new testament that homosexual acts are sinful much like premarital sex which I myself am guilty of, I wouldn't call the writings hostile. However in the Koran, it calls for barbaric executions to take place for said behavior. And the adherents are doing this on the daily. And, true enough, a small minority of Christians point to verses in the bible and preach a message of hate. You can't blame that on an inanimate book or God any more than you can blame science for nuclear devastation in Hiroshima. You must blame the people. And the vast majority of Christians including myself would tell you, that guy and those like him are scumbags. While a growing majority of muslims do in fact support a message of hatred and murder of any who don't follow their prophet. Until there is at least as much venom if not more coming from your community toward muslims as there is toward Christians your virtue signaling will be considered exactly that by the rest of the world.
Islam has killed millions in the last decade, lets focus all attention on Christianity!
