Violence is the Natural conclusion of Religion.

[RobertE]

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Indeed, whenever there is a terrorist act committed by Muslims in the West, it is shocking and I must admit, I do comment on the story along with others.

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However, then I bring up the fact that Christians, especially Catholics were exactly the same over the last two millenia, yet they reply with "but that was a long time ago, we are talking about today." This is what gets my goat in fact that most, if not all Christians just don't want to acknowledge that their religion was exactly the same.

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The Qu'ran and the Bible are the same. There is no doubt about that. Mohammed was in fact an Arab whose family probably followed Judaism or paganism, until he decided that he had enough and start his own, taking some documents with him and thus creating the Qu'ran. Well, that is my theory anyway, I am not saying it is correct but there is a strong possibility that I could be.

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So life under Catholic (later Orthodox) Byzantium or under the Western Roman Empire of Charlemagne or under the Holy Roman Empire of Otto etc. was "exactly the same" as life under ISIS or in Iran? Really?

You are taking my point out of context. Please tell me that the indigenous people wanted to be converted by catholic missionaries. Please tell me that catholics weren't involved in the Atlantic slave trade, please tell me that Catholics weren't responsible for the lie that could have wiped out the whole of Europe in that cats were the cause of the plague? The pope in history is no more different to what Osama Bin Laden, or the Ayatollahs are. They are equally as sick.