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Originally Posted by lealdragon Historically, violent religious fanaticism was found predominately in the Christian religion. |
This is wrong, as it turns out. Do you know why the Crusaders were trying to conquer the Holy Land? It's because Christians had been driven out by Moslems 300 years before. Do you know why Christians drove the Moorish Moslems out of Spain? Because the Moslems had taken the Iberian Peninsula from Christians. Do you know why there has been Christian/Moslem tension in the Balkans for the last 100+ years? Because the Moslem Ottomans invaded Christian Europe.
There has been a lot of plain old political aggression under the cover of Christianity over the years, but the faith itself never called for the military conquest of others. In fact, the teachings of Jesus are pretty much exactly the opposite.
I won't comment on Islam since I haven't tried to read the Koran in about 30 years, and never made much progress even then. I will say that political leaders have committed just as much mayhem and brutality under the guise of Islam as has been done by nominal Christians. Just for one, Christians around the world abandoned slavery before Moslems did, and there is some evidence that slavery is still in place in a couple of Muslim African countries.