RE: If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?
January 18, 2014 at 12:25 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2014 at 12:34 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 18, 2014 at 9:15 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(January 17, 2014 at 4:05 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: There is no "religion of peace." Religions are inherently belligerent.
Some people who follow religions are belligerent but that doesn't mean the religion itself is meant to be generally they're not supposed to be. Islam is slightly tricky because you do have initial massive conquest of land and people element I can't help noticing. Christianity did this a little bit eventually with the Crusades but that was on a much smaller scale, focused around here.
Bull fucking shit.
What was the reason, you suppose, that Christians used to justify conqueroring all of south, central and most of North America, subjugating and ending up rapidly killing most of 100 million native Americans in south and central Americas in by far the largest and most vicious land grab in history?
The only thing more repugnant than the hypocrisy of Muslims claiming Islam to be nonviolent is Christians claiming Christianity to have anything less than MUCH MORE violent and expansionist than even Islam during its history.
Violence = bad things other people do onto me in the name of their god.
Peace = bad things I do onto other people in the name of my god, or in this case, prince of peace.
I sure am proud of all the peace I waged.
Christianity and Islam are indistinguishable in this.
