(January 16, 2025 at 1:30 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Leo, lol. You see any christians lopping off heads because somebody drew a picture of jesus? No, because they've been housebroken. Case in point, your examples. If you want to tell me that the problem is that too many muslims today are even more retrograde than medeival christians were then I'm not exactly going to disagree.
Well they weren’t acting like angels during the crusades. They even raided East-Roman cities including Constantinople. You can also check-out this movie if you want:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3465916/
Faith has always the potential to lead us into irrational thoughts and behavior. It doesn’t matter who you are harming while doing that. People are harming one another for ideologies (socialism, racism or even nationalist / republican ideas).
A truly spiritual person (at least in theory) has to be able to look beyond these things and see the universal phenomenon within each and every one of us.
The contradiction we have today is that most religious people are doing the exact opposite of this while people without any religious denomination are simply better in understanding and applying these universal principles.
So my answer is: - The era of tolerating extreme approaches within religious issues is over. Don’t you think we should try to evolve as a specie (instead of trying to resurrect some ancient ways of doing thing – That didn’t even exist to begin with if you know about these issues -).