(April 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm)Godschild Wrote:(April 23, 2012 at 5:11 pm)tobie Wrote: As Gandhi said; "I like your christ, but I don't like your christians."
I think it reflects pretty badly upon christianity if people claim to be christians and do atrocities like the holocaust, the crusades, the slave trade etc.
I think the phrase "You shall know them by the company they keep" is quite apt.
By what you are saying when a nonbeliever steals then we can say all nonbelievers are thieves.
What makes you think that nonbelievers were not a big part of the slave trade, I see it that way.
The main reason for taking africans as slaves is that they weren't christian, because having christian slaves was against the rules.
You completely missed my point. Like I said, it's pretty damning on christianity when people claim to be christian, yet commit atrocities of the magnitude of the holocaust. I never said use one example of something to make a blanket statement about everyone else like them.
