(October 9, 2014 at 5:30 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: It's more like Islam is a teenager. And Christianity is middle age.
When Christianity was young, as Islam is today, we called it "The Dark Ages".
I watched the exchange between Affleck and Harris several times, and I have yet to hear anything racist or bigoted from Harris. Criticizing ideas is not bigoted.
I love when Kristol makes Harris' point for him by listing a few Muslims that are heroic for speaking out against Islam extremism.
Not really, whilst it's true Christians were indeed very violent as a peoples around this stage in their.......... shall we say social evolution and reconciliation with the real world.
The founding documents are quite different, the acts of violence are very very different.
More to the point, it was a very bad interpretation of Christianity that allowed things like this to happen.
The bible was kept from the people precisely so they could be told anything was god's will and sent off to war/told to burn their daughters.
Not so much with Islam, quite the opposite. The more of this religions religious text a Muslim reads the more likely he is to be violent, intolerant, sexist etc.
For crying out loud, we are literally comparing a wondering pacifist hippy with a Genghis Khan here......... get over your aversion to noticing it.
