Soren wrote on Nov 24
th, 2014 at 11:03pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 24
th, 2014 at 7:01pm:
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Objective truths:
Islamic doctrines are disgusting and despicable on women, Jews, nonMuslims; stupid on most other things. It is a stupid AND dangerous ideology. You are free to choose it or reject it in the West.
True but there is effectively no difference between Islam and Christianity as far as the things you've just claimed. Christianity has oppressed women, Jews and non-Christians, doing them onto death just as happily, Soren. If you were truly objective you'd know and understand that. That you keep turning a blind-eye to it, in order to persecute Muslims alone suggests what about your motivations? It certainly isn't objectivity.
Which Christian doctrine says that women are worth half a man in law or that Jews must be killed off as are those who leave Christianity, non-Christians to be killed or taxed extra and humiliated?
~2,000 years of Christianity's history, Soren, where Christianity was used to oppress women, non-believers, Jews. You have St.Paul's misogyny, you have the Churches' anti-Semitism, you have the churches advocating and promulgating it's doctrine of "holy war" against the inhabitants of the New World. Soren, Christianity has a long, long, long, history of doing exactly the things you claim it doesn't and it did it often with the contrivance and cooperation of the Church.
Quote:Which Christian doctrine teaches deception?
Christianity accepts that deception is sometimes required for survival, Soren.
Deception is acceptable, if the circumstance calls for it, to protect oneself or others. Taqiyya is akin to the dissimulation practised by Abram (later Abraham) regarding the identity of his wife (Genesis 12:11-13), the deliberate deception by the Egyptian midwives to protect Hebrew infants targeted for government-mandated slaughter (Exodus 1:15-20), and Rahab’s use of the old “They went that-a-way” routine to conceal the Hebrew spies in Jericho (Joshua 2:1-7).
Quote:I am not aware of such Christian doctrines. Nor are you. They do not exist.
Why then am I am to quite chapter and verse from The Bible, Soren?
Quote:As the emperor said to the Muslim: ""Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Ah, the comment from the Regensburg lecture of Pope Benedict XVI. What a shame you, like the Muslims who took what was said out of context didn't read the rest or both to understand the context of that statement and of course, how ironical it was, considering Christianity's bloody history of spreading it's faith by the sword. However, I'm not surprised because such subtleties are beyond you, Soren. Your Islamophobia blinds you to them.
Quote:Differences between the Western and Muslims world are genuine and obvious, in law, family relations, politics, outlook, regard to reason, art, science. These differences stem from huge differences between Christianity and Islam.
The differences are, as I keep pointing out, smaller than you actually understand, Soren. Why don't you ever notice the similarities? Does your bigotry blind you to them?
Islam has zero effect on the lives, attitudes and values of Muslim countries. Whatever is not right in such countries has nuffin' to do wiv Islam. Of course.
Not only that, but countries with a Christian inheritance - which has a very significant impact on societies where it has been significant for centuries - are obviously way behind Muslim countries in every single life-affirming indicator: Europe, North America, AUS & NZ are consistently behind Muslim countries in education, life expectancy, freedom of all sorts, the opportunities and encouragement given to girls and women, minorities.
Countries with Christian inheritance, morals and values are obviously lagging behind Muslim countries in every indicator. Islam has nuffin' to do wiv where Islamic countries are but Christianity is fully responsible for where all the backward Christian countries are.
Take Denmark and England, two officially Christian countries, and Saudi Arabia and Iran, two officially Islamic countries. Why are not all the Danes and the English queueing for visas to Saudi and Iran is the great mystery of the third millennium. If you were to be believed. They are rednecks, bigots, race-haters. Any enlightened Westerner would be moving to an Islamic country.
But you are not. You are full of - drum roll - shite, bluster, idiocy, bad faith. You lack sense: common sense, sense of proportion, sense of what matters.