(November 4, 2013 at 11:44 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: I chose. Christianity over Islam because nothing is worse than a frightened Christian. Not in America, anyways. Due process of law means nothing to those who consider their power to be divine right. Anyone who isn't in their right is by default wrong and therefore innumerable amounts of travesties can have and will be done in the name of god. Not to mention the new Christian Reich rising out of Russia's ashes, and our nuclear capabilities so closely in the hands of Christian extremists. .
The only real important difference is that Christianity had a sort of secular leash put on it by people like Jefferson. In Islam we haven't seemed to have had that backlash against religion as institution that happened in the enlightenment for Christianity. In other words, Islam is Christianity from the dark ages only without a pope.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
