Some human beings are less complex than others. This is pure bigotry
masquerading as innocence.
You might want to remember that Christianity as religion of piece is a few
small chapters in a large and violent text. It's easy to abstract
offhandedly back to the 12th century, easy to forget that the Jews, Moslems
and Eastern Orthodox slaughtered, every one of them, in Jerusalem, were
fully human. Harder to do with modern pogroms, or the violence of
condemning millions to death by AIDS or not so long ago Opus Dei in Spain
or the pentecostal death squads in Guatemala and El Salvador.
I'm waiting for you to mention compassion instead of personal salvation.
I think Robin got it wrong.
Mark
> There are many complexities inherent in every human-being
> and to make an assumption or a judgement solely upon any
> individual according to that persons belief system will not
> give you an accurate understanding of that person.
> Unless of course that belief system is one that condones
> violence as a legitimate purpose.How anyone can believe
> that Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion is beyond me.
>
> Now I do not want to open up a pandoras box and have everyone
> declare "what about the Crusades?" "Were they not violent,
> killing in the name of Christianity?"
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