RE: If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?
January 18, 2014 at 5:00 pm
(January 18, 2014 at 4:47 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Christians do.
I don't Jesus said anything like that.
Quote: Jews do.
It doesn't say that in the Torah either. Quite the opposite if anything.
"So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt." Deuteronomy 10:19
A foreigner wouldn't be a Jew of course. Any of the less pleasant versus you may like to find were over a tribal war over land, it was only the land they wanted not the people they going after. Once the people fled from the land there were no orders to chase and hunt them down.
Quote:I've read the bible
I don't think you really have.
Quote: so I'm quite certain that death is meant to be a common response to people who don't convert quickly enough.
You're making something up that isn't actually in there. Find the passages that say this and post them on here.
Quote:Individuals can't say things like that, but the atheists in general are not commanded by anyone with authority over them to kill religious people or burn in eternal agony.
So morality doesn't exist beyond the atheists own opinion of what they decide is moral and everyone's own opinion of morality is equally good?
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
