(July 8, 2010 at 4:34 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: In another forum that I participate in with Min, as well as elsewhere online, I've gotten into the habit of using the term "Islamo-Christianity".
I've started using it because I can't find a dime's worth of difference between Islam and Christianity. Christians will claim to be less violent but I've received more death threats from them than from Muslims. I have little doubt that if Christian leaders had their way, we'd go back to the days of old when heretics were tortured and burned at the stake.
The biggest difference is that Muslim clerical leaders have the kind of power that Christian clerics can only fondly remember.
In some ways, I agree. Muslims in the East are like Christians in the West were in about the 12th century, ideologically speaking. They haven't had the benefits of an Enlightenment and centuries of secular liberalising influences. Mind you, there isn't a clearly defined Christian equivalent of jihad, so, whilst Christians may threaten you, they'd be unlikely to walk the talk, as it were.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
