The god of the Torah commands that if someone attempts to leave or convince others to leave the faith, that not only should he be executed, but that every person, guilty and innocent, young and old, in the entire city should be executed as well, and the entire town burned to the ground, never to be rebuilt.
The god of the Quran simply takes this one step further and commands believers to force non-believers to join the faith or die.
How is the latter somehow more egregious than the former? Both commands are completely immoral and absolutely abhorrent. I fail to see how Christians have the high ground here.
Here is the thing you don't get though. Christianity is focused on because that religion has a vastly larger effect on this country then Islam or anything else. You see Radical Islam is the enemy, but you say it as if it's the only threat. Christianity represents are different kind of problem, it's more subtle..not something physical.
As much as people might be afraid of terrorists, Christianity has far more of an effect on the everyday lives of people in this country.
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Also, consider location- Which atheists is one hearing from? American, sometimes European atheists, mostly, right?
I.e. they are people who grew up surrounded by Christians and are often former Christians. They focus on Christianity because it's what they know.
Atheists from Indonesia, Turkey, etc. will complain about Islam more because that's what *they* know. India? Hindu- and btw, I do a group of wandering atheists in India who travel around disproving mystical feats (stuff like sticking needles in the tongue, or pulling a vehicle with hooks in the flesh without bleeding) by performing them, and then explaining the science behind them.
To paraphrase one standup comedian-
"People sometimes ask me, 'you do jokes about all these other groups, why don't you do jokes about Muslims?', and I tell them,
'I don't do jokes about Muslims because I don't know anything about Muslims and neither do you.' "
Most English speaks know, at best, a very rough sketch of what Islam is like, and even of those who know more, they often only know about one or two particular cultures. An Indonesia Muslim- biggest Muslim culture in the world- is a fairly different thing from a Pakistani Muslims from a Turkish Muslim from an Egyptian Muslim.
Plus, of course, there's often big religion debates and groups within the same countries!
Consider, say, having a Mormon, a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, and a Southern Evangelical, and talking to all of them as if they all focused on the same things and had identical beliefs. Only, not even having enough knowledge of them to know what they had in common, but having to rely on second-hand accounts, and/or work on the similarities between it and Christianity.
That's pretty much where most people are. They don't *know* Muslims, let alone the real ins-and-outs of the religion.
It certainly seems like he is while also being anti-Christian. He's not alone though. Seems like the overwhelming majority of people who post in GDF or religion forum are the same way. Of course, they're all left-leaning. Another big surprise.
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Re: Aethism and Islam
Yes. Notice how everything atheists accuse Christians of doing muslims do 100x worse. Even liberals like Sam Harris and Bill Maher say that liberals are pro-islamic.
Clearly the reason the left backs islam is as a way to neutralize/suppress Christianity. However they will be singing a different tune when their kids start getting raped by radical muslims.
So we hate radical Islam for taking innocent lives, so the solution is to destroy radical Islam at whatever cost to innocent life.
And you still consider yourself the good guy?
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Most liberals/atheists are not smart enough to see every sterotype they have about Christians applies to Muslims just 10X more extreme. Thats just a fact.
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So banning people from immigrating because they believe in a different religion and we're afraid of them... makes you the good guy? How is that not just the lesser of two evil solutions?
"America the brave" lol
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