The ones that don't hate Christians are the ones that don't follow the Koran. It teaches murder to those that won't convert. That is enough for me to wish they lived elsewhere. You can only turn the cheek so long. ....You guys are getting too deep.
Sorry if I take your remarks out of context, but here goes:
Followers of every religion pick and choose. There are fundamentalist Muslims, fundamentalist Christians, etc. There are also people who are "backsliders" or "non practicing" or just uneducated. I would hazard to say that most people in church on Sunday don't know squat about the bible, either the Southern Baptist one that my inlaws go to, or the Methodist one that we go to, or my original Catholic church.
How many are just ignorant? They mean well, they go every Sunday and sing.........but they never dig very deep. The fundamental Muslim religion is as you all say..........intolerant, preaching death to the non-Muslims, etc.
But, what about Paul of Tarsus? Here is a guy, uhm, lets see:
What about: But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence 1 Timothy 2:12
How many female teachers are there? ( I know that this is probably "rabbi")
What about: Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters Ephesians 6:5. So, you support slavery?
What about: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities 1 Timothy 5:23
So you have no pictures or idols or stained glass windows in your churches because of the 2nd Commandment?
"Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth"
Do you have pictures of yourself anywhere? Of your wife? Your avatars on this site? Have you had an MRI or CAT scan that saved your life?
I am guessing that due to the conservative nature of this site, that most of you are fundamentalist in nature. You will undoubtedly reject any idea of "middle of the road" worship, but not all Muslims are extremists. Not all Christians are extremists either.
I am all for punishing the wicked. I believe that some people are Evil with a capital "E", I have met some. I believe that might does NOT make right. I believe that being the greatest nation in history means that we have an obligation to do BETTER than the other people. It means that we should let the Red Cross and Amnesty International into our prisons because we have nothing to hide. Because we aren't torturing people, because we should be feeding and clothing them.
I also believe that we are a nation of fearful people. So we are going to condemn all Muslims because of heads being chopped off and daycares being blownn up? Now who has their head in the sand as someone accused me of? Been to El Salvador? Been to Laos? Vietnam? Americans have had their hands in some ugly places too.
Those Saudi, extremist, al Quaeda Muslims got lucky SEVEN years ago. You are running in fear of 20 guys who have been dead for 7 SEVEN years. Where are the shipping containers with nukes? How about the anthrax? Dirty bombs? Do you honestly think that the DHS has been protecting you from secret attacks? TM7 makes a little sense on this topic.
Sure, al Quaeda, kill them. Taliban....kill them. Iraqi Sunnis....kill them. Then where? Who is next? You going to round up all Muslims?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 22:38 This is the first and great commandment. 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:37-22:40