(September 7, 2018 at 9:49 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: There are about 50 Muslim-majority nations. Just wondering if the generalizations take all of them into account.
Hey, you never know. I mean just look at Christians and Zionism, you know a nationalist movement that has a territorial claim at its very heart - one also supported by many evangelical Christians who believe the Jews must first return to Israel in order for Christ to return. I mean is there a good secular argument for Israeli settlements in the West Bank?
So who knows what triggers "good" Muslims to get more involved in what "bad" Muslim in their countries are doing like jihadism and other bad parts from Koran that moderates are ignoring like beheading of disbelievers; the amputation of hands for theft; domestic violence; the killing of polytheists; and so on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"