Attack Islam, not Christianity.

[Zenith]

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Basically my main concern with religion is that it hurts society as a whole. Now, all religions have a negative impact in one way or another. Even Hinduism with its "nature is sacred" and "karma" concept led to the Cast system that is plaguing India's social structure.

My concern is that i see a lot of attacks on Christianity overall on these forums and in society as a whole. But the worst thing Christianity does today is molest children, which, yes, gives them horrible emotional scarring, but some pull through and no one dies.

Islam kills people. A LOT of people. Women are, in the book itself, worth less than men. And although homosexuality is as criticized as is Christianity, the Catechism of the Catholic Church changed this position to make homosexuality a disease that has to be prayed away, and homosexuals should not be held responsible for their behavior. Islam did not change, and keeps the death punishment very much alive.
Even worse, the descendants of the Prophet hold a divine right to leadership that goes against all of what Democracy is for.

If you look at Africa, the countries where Christianity is the main religion do better socially and economically, treat women and homosexuals better than in countries where Islam is the main religion.

Christianity has been attenuated by centuries of democracy and rationality. Islam has not. If there is one religion that people need to oppose, i'd say it's Islam.

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I've read a few posts in this thread, and THIS TOPIC IS INTERESTING!!

I agree: it currently seems that atheists focus too much on christianity and much less on Islam. And if we look around, Christian countries (where christians are majority) are much friendlier than the Islamic countries (where muslims are majority) - they do not start religious wars now, you can live in such a country without fear, they are opened to the rest of the world. Moreover, christians don't commit terrorist attacks, muslims don't fear that a christian would bomb himself in his mosque and a jew does not fear that he would be stabbed by a christian for being a jew. Currently, the worse thing about Christianity is indoctrination of its adherents, which is mostly (99%) not affecting the outer society, and moreover, the people of the church are subjects to the Law of the state.

But what is Islam now? In Islamic countries muslims bomb christian churches, kill christians, and when they are caught they are simply released because they did it in the name of Allah. Islam currently wages wars for religion, you can't afford to live in an Islamic country happily, you don't have freedom of speech there, and they are not opened to the rest of the world. Muslims commit terrorist attacks, jews have reasons to fear muslims, even in western countries. In the Islamic countries muslims try to exterminate the jews and christians and atheists and they yearn to have all citizens muslims.

And yeah, as about religious books: most christians ignore the old testament (where you find sadistic things, violence, etc.) and look only on the new testament. And even more than that, they listen much more careful to what their doctrine teaches, and I don't know one denomination that teaches its adherents to go and kill people (not the same I could speak about Islam in islamic countries). Moreover, the Islamic holy books are more sadistic and more violent and more anti-women than the bible. And yeah, the Jews hold on the Old Testament, but they have their own interpretations from their sages, and they, like christians, don't bomb themselves in the name of religion, and did not show themselves as a danger for the outer society, while Israel is a very developed country (especially if compare it with the muslim countries) and you wouldn't have feared living in Israel if there had not been muslim terrorists.

And still, the highest frustrations of atheists seem to be on christians. Even black metal bands never mention the muslims in their songs, but instead they only "look how evil christianity is!"

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i know all about that...what does that have to know with anything ? Are you saying we need to wait 500 until they get their enlightenment ? And the Muslims had their enlightenment, they made amazing progress in astronomy, medicine, or maths. And then the radicalism took over.

That's a good point: Islam was not always that fanatical. There were also christians living peacefully in muslim territories in periods of the middle ages.
BUT... there's another point too: it seems that christianity was much more tolerant in the early middle ages (up to 8-9th century, or even slightly later on). As about the Catholic Pope, it seems that many fail to realize that he didn't have the ultimate power always (some catholic popes were exiled - and even worse - by the Byzantine Empire, while Rome was still in Byzantine hands, while the catholic Holy Roman Empire had disputes with the catholic pope and the catholic pope has been exiled, by the Holy Roman Emperor, as a result).