@gftchris said:

Doesn't count.

And Cro-Magnon were enslaved by Neanderthals. Somebody around here is due restitution.

WSS

@pumpkin-eater said:

Islam is the reverse of Christianity. As Mohammed grew in power the more violent his teachings became. At first he preached peace but then said to disregard the early writings and kill infidels.

I mean, the god of the bible has a decent body count too. Just sayin

is because they are desparate.......

sorry to think it, but I believe the open borders garbage means we are going to get hit by

terrorists badly, especially with the open borders allowing mass groups of refugees in, and the

open invitation to more and more illegals across our s border.

I wish Bush had built a wall. Somebody should have.

@jbluhm86 said:

Ben is incredibly dumb and Sam rules as per usual.

@pumpkin-eater said:

Thus the concept of abrogration within the Quran. In the timeline, all of the "let's be peaceful neighbors" stuff is in the early going before Muhammad was able to convince enough people to join him.

@logicisforsquares said:

Refugees and native born people are turning to terrorism. They are not currently or have never lived in these environments that supposedly are more to blame for the extremism yet they turn in that direction. The only thing they have in common is that they read the same specific book.

Islam has never experienced a 'new testament' moment. If the Bible was only made up of the Old Testament, you would very likely see way more Christian extremists. However, the New Testament introduced the hippy son who preached peace. The Quran was written by one guy during his life time. There is no loose interpretation of what he meant. Any clarification needed was covered by the Hadith shortly after Muhammad's death. The scholars who knew Muhammad confirmed the "sword verses".

A desert bandit created a religion and people are shocked when the believers are more apt to kill others. The believers who are chill are great. But at the heart of it, there should be no confusion. It is a violent religion.

"Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas."- Sam Harris

Islam is the reverse of Christianity. As Mohammed grew in power the more violent his teachings became. At first he preached peace but then said to disregard the early writings and kill infidels.

@jbluhm86 said:

Wow. I just watched that video. Ben Affleck is an idiot. Textbook social justice warrior that cries "Racist! Bigot!" when presented with inconvenient facts and observations.

@mld-woody said:

no, that is incorrect. Extremism exists in the greed and evil of those who are sick enough to embrace it.

nazis hideous violence - not religious.

drug cartel hideous violence - not religious

communists and socialists hideous violence - not religious (stalin, mao, mussolini for examples)

kkk hideous violence - not religious

illegal immigrants hideous violence - not religious

You have to differentiate between random occurences of inividual hideous violence... and mass cultural

movements' hideous violence.

A dr, layer, preacher, whoever can commit hideous violence.

But that isn't a mass cultural movement like some of examples I gave above. And religion isn't a common

factor of extremism.

@logicisforsquares said:

"Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas."- Sam Harris

@mld-woody said:

Refugees and native born people are turning to terrorism. They are not currently or have never lived in these environments that supposedly are more to blame for the extremism yet they turn in that direction. The only thing they have in common is that they read the same specific book.

Islam has never experienced a 'new testament' moment. If the Bible was only made up of the Old Testament, you would very likely see way more Christian extremists. However, the New Testament introduced the hippy son who preached peace. The Quran was written by one guy during his life time. There is no loose interpretation of what he meant. Any clarification needed was covered by the Hadith shortly after Muhammad's death. The scholars who knew Muhammad confirmed the "sword verses".

A desert bandit created a religion and people are shocked when the believers are more apt to kill others. The believers who are chill are great. But at the heart of it, there should be no confusion. It is a violent religion.

"Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas."- Sam Harris

That other thread also showed how some distinguish between Christians and "Christians", but not with Islam.

@mld-woody said:

If that was my point then you might be on to something

Just so nobody has to put words in your mouth what exactly is your point?

WSS

@the-cysko-kid said:

Its like your point that christians are meany heads gets less important because now there's 100,001 muslim terror attacks

If that was my point then you might be on to something

@calfoxwc said:

fair and balanced, like Fox News.

We were joking about all sorts of other religions, and I

just thought the atheist "religion" should be included....

That's fair. You kind of misses on the humor part though.

@mld-woody said:

It's like a point is attempted to be made in another thread, and it goes right by everyone...

But no, it is cool. You're all being clever. Gosh darn it.

Its like your point that christians are meany heads gets less important because now there's 100,001 muslim terror attacks