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RE: Islam is not a Religion, but a.....
June 23, 2017 at 2:02 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2017 at 2:02 am by Regina.)
The difference between Christianity and Islam in the 21st Century is secularism.
In terms of the moral values they promote, they are as good as the same culture; sexual repression, strong traditional family code, extremely conservative views about women, war-mongering tendecies, sensitive snowflake God.
The difference is that Christianity has been through 500 years of secular enlightenment. This is why the extent of Christianity's influence these days is a few blubbering Republicans and some breakaway cultists holding "God hates fags" signs.
Islam has not been through this process. It still holds state power in several countries, some of which export particularly draconion schools of Islamic "thought" into other countries, through investment into mosques and Islamic faith schools. The religion is still incredibly politicised, and behaves the way Christianity used to in Medieval Europe. Until it is de-politicised, we're going to keep seeing horribly conservative ideas not being fringe among Muslims, we'll keep seeing oppression masquerading as "culture", and we'll keep seeing terror.
I think it also helps that the central prophet of Christianity is a pot-smoking hippy rather than a pedophile warlord. That doesn't mean a great deal though, there's enough horrible in Christian scripture to make it a terrible religion given power.
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