(March 27, 2017 at 8:36 am)Khemikal Wrote: The deaths will be laid at the feet of the people who perpetrated them regardless. Religions, like gods... don't go around doing shit. Religious people do.
We always hear this refrain, from christers specifically. Not that any of you actually want to have the merits of your faith vis a vis it's teachings assessed, whatsoever. To my mind, it's a purile attempt to plead ones way away from other equally bloodthirsty abrahamic faiths, such as islam. I can understand, though. I really can. You don;t seem to be the kind of guy that would bury a motherfucker to his neck in sand. Your personal faith is probably all sorts of non-violent. You won;t have any easier a time explaining the disparity between your private faith, the public faith, and magic books than the common non-violent muslim, though.
The NT, the New Covenant, cannot be construed to command violence of its adherents in any way--even in cases the OT would have called for a capital offense. So, there should be no difference between public and private faith (in that respect).
I have read passages of the Koran that call for violence, so...apples and oranges.
