(October 30, 2014 at 10:53 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Christianity was violent at one time and still is in some corners of the world. Once in a great while, Christian terrorism manifests even in the civilized first world countries (see Timothy McVey and anti-abortion assassins). Still, civilization seems to have done a good job overall of restraining and moderating Christianity. Is there a way to do the same for Islam?
It took the Thirty Years' War and its millions of deaths to make Christians realize the futility of religious war. I don't doubt that it would take something equally as shattering to bring extremist Islam to the same point as extremist Christianity has been sent.