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For those screaming "Crusades!" or "Nazis!' or whatever your favorite flavor of Christian bashing is, I challenge you to find passages similar to these in the New Testament commanding Christians to do similar things: Methinks you doth protest too much! As a Fundie you accept the OT as well and that makes you an israel firster, an islamaphobe. This would be all different if you indeed accepted the NT. Now in a racist fit, you are misquoting/editing quranic verse to contextualize as you see fit...along the lines of Pam Geller and her boy friend ex-communist Spencer. Let's take a closer look keeping in mind that most moslems are reformed not screaming fundamentalists...no what I mean?
Why limit ourselves to just the New Testament? But here are some christian passages about killing the nonbeleivers.
Exodus 22:20 "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
Deuteronomy 17:2-7 "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. "
Leviticus 24:14-16 "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
Deteronomy 13:1-5 "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God"
Deteronomy 13:12-16 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit,
There are plenty of other offenses promoting other religions or being a false prophet that the Bible is very clear on. The penalty is death,sometimes for whole families or even entire cities. Before you start mouthing off,maybe you should actually READ the Bible. (Have you stoned any adulterers or homosexuals lately?)
Theres some reasonable stuff in there. For instance,if you own an Ox (and presumably,it wouldn't really have to ONLY apply to Oxen,but for instance,you might have a pitbull) and it attacks and kills someone,the Bible says you should put the animal down. Thats very reasonable. It also says that if the animal had attacked someone before,and you knew about it and you failed to take the proscribed action of killing the animal,then YOU are responsible and should be put to death. While I think that's rather harsh,I agree completely with the sentiment that if you are negligent in your duty to stop a dangerous animal from killing again,then you are as responsible as if you had killed the victim yourself.
On the other hand,the bible says that children who do not obey their parents should be put to death. Your 18 and your father does not like his daughters new boyfreind,so she tells him where he can go and moves in with him? He is perfectly 100% within his rights according to the Bible to kill her. (Sound familiar?) It also says that if a woman is caught cheating on her husband she should be pelted with heavy rocks until she dies from the broken bones and hemoraging from crushed and torn tissues. Theres a lot of crazy stuff in there that people conveniently choose to ignore because they know damn well that even though its printed in the bible,its just plain wrong.
Muslims are no different. Most ignore the crazy stuff. Some,decide to try to take every word at face value and are every bit as loony as their Christian counterparts. The only real difference is that religious theocracies in the middle east and failed nations where the loonies turned out to be the only source of "order" (such that it was) allowed these loonies to attract enough followers and organize to such an extent that they are now a serious problem. In the western nations,such groups (usually with some crazy Christian derived philosophy,often with a health dose of racism thrown in) of crazies organize to a point,under the protection of free speech rights,which most western nations have to some extent,and then when they reach a certain critical size and cross certain legal lines,they get crushed and the movement never really takes hold at any nationally or internationally relevant level.
