(July 13, 2012 at 10:53 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 13, 2012 at 10:47 pm)padraic Wrote: What? You really don't have a clue,do you. Self immolation and suicide of any kind are not basic tenets of any form of Buddhism any more than burning crosses on people's lawns is a tenet of Christianity. Drongo..
For fuck sake do some reading before you start making stupid claims about other religions.
Neither were the Inquisition and Crusades part of Biblical Christianity, but it still happened and has become an integral part of the history of the Christian religion.
Incorrect.
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Christian anti-Semites blame Jews in general for the death of Jesus (whom Christians believe to be God made man). This belief has been cited by many Anti-semites as justification for their animosity towards the Jews. St Matthew's Gospel (Mt 27:25) quotes a Jewish mob crying, shortly before the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children"; this quotation is taken by some to refer to all Jews. This view held sway in many parts of Christian Europe throughout the Middle Ages, including by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger (aka Jacob Sprenger) in the Malleus Maleficarum (1486):
