Your problem is that you're obsessed with the idea that gender = physical sex. Your entire post is about physicality, especially surgical modifications. Gender is a social construct. Your gender expression is determined by culture and conditioning... not your genitals.
You expressed a bunch of ignorant opinions. They're not "facts" if you don't actually make reference to anything... and comparing someone's gender to "masquerading as the Predator" is insulting.
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rud
Well, for one, people should stop saying ignorant things like "nobody should have the right to practice a religion that tells you to kill infidels in the instruction manual" and calling for Islam to be banned, while ignoring the fact that Christianity has pretty much the exact same problem.
Religion isn't the problem, the problem is violent religious extremists. Well, you might be able to argue that religion is a problem, but you can't single out just one religion. People have killed in the name of pretty much every religion to ever be created.
Capitalism in the classic sense relies on faith that the "invisible hand" of the free market will promote competition... which obviously it does not, without regulation to prevent monopolies from taking over.
christians being bad doesn't justify muslims being bad
Nope -- but you wouldn't condemn all of Christianity for the actions of just a few "fringe" Christians, would you? Because that is what many people are doing in this thread -- calling for Islam to be outlawed because they believe it is a "corrupt" religion due to the actions of fringe elements.
The point is that people who believe their religion is somehow superior to another religion are delusional and dangerous -- and that goes for people of any religion.
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rud
Religious violence is a widespread problem, and it's ethnocentric bigotry to suggest that Islam is somehow guilty of some moral corruption that is unique to that religion.
Since you are content to base your beliefs on blind prejudice and assumptions based on what you hear in the news, rather than doing some actual research, I've taken the liberty of spoon-feeding you some summaries of recent terrorist actions by Christians.
Here's some stuff, from the link I already provided:
Hindus in India
The Baptist Church of Tripura is alleged to have supplied the NLFT with arms and financial support and to have encouraged the murder of Hindus, particularly infants, as a means to depopulate the region of all Hindus.[28] In 2009, the Assam Times reported that about fifteen armed Hmar militants, members of Manmasi National Christian Army, tried to force Hindu residents of Bhuvan Pahar, Assam to convert to Christianity.[29] A few Christian evangelists in India have been accused of forced conversion of Hindus, and some of them have been for allegedly converting others by force.[30][31]
North America
The government paid religious societies to provide education to Native American children on reservations. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) founded additional American Indian boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Children were usually immersed in European-American culture through appearance changes with haircuts, were forbidden to speak their native languages, and traditional names were replaced by new European-American names. The experience of the schools was often harsh, especially for the younger children who were separated from their families. In numerous ways, they were encouraged or forced to abandon their Native American identities and cultures.[17] The number of Native American children in the boarding schools reached a peak in the 1970s, with an estimated enrollment of 60,000 in 1973. Especially through investigations of the later twentieth century, there have been many documented cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse occurring at such schools.[18][19] Since those years, tribal nations have increasingly insisted on community-based schools and have also founded numerous tribally controlled colleges. Community schools have also been supported by the federal government through the BIA and legislation. The largest boarding schools have closed. In some cases, reservations or tribes were too small or poor to support independent schools and still wanted an alternative for their children, especially for high school. By 2007, the number of Native American children in boarding schools had declined to 9,500.
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were unde
No, my insight is that claiming one mainstream religion is better than some other mainstream religion is missing the point entirely. And yes, people still do that kind of stuff.
It's tiresome to read the comments of a bunch of ignorant bigots who seem to think that their religion is superior to someone else's. Calling this a "discussion" when it's mostly hate-filled rhetoric is pretty fucking ridiculous.
Way to ignore the fact that these people are harassing and terrorizing people who are just attempting to seek medical care... and the link I provided that does outline the murders committed by anti-abortionists.
It's awful that 12 people were murdered by a religious extremist... but it's ridiculous to carry on with the delusion that this is somehow unique to Islam, and that their religion should be banned, while yours is perfectly innocent and lily-white.
Anti-abortionists are waging a campaign of terror every day at abortion clinics across the country. They show up with nasty signs and video cameras, yelling at and videotaping women who are attempting to receive medical care. They want to intimidate and shame them into compliance... and there is an implicit threat of violence due to the history of terrorist attacks on abortion clinics.
Christianity has the New Testament which is supreme over the Old and is very consistent in its advocacy of nonviolence.
“Thou Shall Not Ignore the Old Testament!”
New Testament Verses Which Demand Following
the Old Testament and Law Contradictions:
I hear so many Christians
now a days claim that the Old Testament is defunct for Jesus was the “lamb” to
clear away its rules and regulations. This is just another bullshit scapegoat
that Christians use to ignore the atrocities and bizarre laws commanded by their
god. Their preachers spoon feed them that the Old Testament is no longer
binding so that they can excuse the majority of evil that the bible promotes. I
am so tired of Christians manipulating the scriptures so that they can assign a
kinder nature to their God, that I have assembled a BRIEF list of verses which
clearly show that the Old Testament is not to be ignored. Its laws should
indeed be adhered to, for the New Testament demands it! After this section I
shall list where the Bible contradicts itself concerning other laws.
1) “For truly, I say to you,
till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until
all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these
commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV) Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by
until the end of human existence itself. None other then Jesus said so.
2) All of the vicious Old
Testament laws will be binding forever. "It is easier for Heaven and
Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become
invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)
3) Jesus strongly approves of
the law and the prophets. He hasn’t the slightest objection to the cruelties of
the Old Testament. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or
the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say
to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest
part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place."
(Matthew 5:17 NAB)
3b) "All scripture is
inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction,
and for training in righteousness..." (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB)
3c) "Know this first of all,
that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal
interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather
human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." (2
Peter 20-21 NAB)
4) Jesus criticizes the Jews
for not killing their disobedient children according to Old Testament law.
Mark.7:9-13 "Whoever curses father or mother shall die"
(Mark 7:10 NAB)
5) Jesus is criticized by the
Pharisees for not washing his hands before eating. He defends himself by
attacking them for not killing disobedient children according to the
commandment: “He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.” (Matthew
15:4-7)
6) Jesus has a punishment even
worse than his father concerning adultery: God said the act of adultery was
punishable by death. Jesus says looking with lust is the same thing and you
should gouge your eye out, better a part, than the whole. The punishment
under Jesus is an eternity in Hell. (Matthew 5:27)
7) Peter says that all slaves
should “be subject to [their] masters with all fear,” to the bad and cruel as
well as the “good and gentle.” This is merely an echo of the same slavery
commands in the Old Testament. 1 Peter 2:18
8) “Did not Moses give you the
law, and yet none of you keepeth the law" (John7:19) and “For the law was given
by Moses,..." (John 1:17).
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the
judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death.
Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a
sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to
death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."
(Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or
fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves
to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to
death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death
for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming
of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put
to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife,
both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by
committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to
death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord
alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the
God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not
seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or
great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False
Prophets
If a man still prophesies,
his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because
you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his
parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through.
(Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your
God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow
citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you
must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that
such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and
completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you
must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the
entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town
must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder
that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his
fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make
you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your
God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving
you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins
On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a
virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not
found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there
her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against
Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil
from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or
daughter, or your
What about the treatment of Native Americans in the New World? Spanish Conquistadores conquered native villages, murdering or enslaving the men and beating the women until they "consented" to marriage with a Spanish soldier. They didn't respect the fact that the natives were already married, because they were "heathens."
The fact that "the worst atrocity committed in the name of Christianity" that you can think of was something that happened in Europe just speaks to your extreme ethnocentrism; who cares about what happened in the colonies to non-white people!
So, what? Kill them all because they're Muslim, then? Don't you realize that's what the idiots on the other side of the pond are doing, and that basically makes you as good as the terrorists themselves?
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Get out of here with your logic! This is slashdot!
Psh. I spent $500 on my GTX 780ti. I have no regrets.
Your problem is that you're obsessed with the idea that gender = physical sex. Your entire post is about physicality, especially surgical modifications. Gender is a social construct. Your gender expression is determined by culture and conditioning ... not your genitals.
You expressed a bunch of ignorant opinions. They're not "facts" if you don't actually make reference to anything ... and comparing someone's gender to "masquerading as the Predator" is insulting.
Fuck you, dude.
Ah yes, the classic "homosexuals = pedophiles" argument.
The difference is obviously that children are not able to legally consent to sexual activity.
Go post your homophobic rants somewhere else.
Transgendered women are not "men trying to impersonate women," and your comments about aliens and hobbits are insulting and you know it.
This is a hugely privileged and willfully ignorant gender-essentialist rant.
I personally have more issues from dirty bible thumpers talking about all of us going to hell than I've ever been threatened by a Muslim.
Yep.
People do commit violence and terrorist acts in the name of Jesus Christ. The KKK is a notable example of this.
Here are just a few recent examples of terrorist acts committed by Christians for religious reasons that I was able to find with very little research:
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rud
Well, for one, people should stop saying ignorant things like "nobody should have the right to practice a religion that tells you to kill infidels in the instruction manual" and calling for Islam to be banned, while ignoring the fact that Christianity has pretty much the exact same problem.
Religion isn't the problem, the problem is violent religious extremists. Well, you might be able to argue that religion is a problem, but you can't single out just one religion. People have killed in the name of pretty much every religion to ever be created.
that government regulation reduces rather than increases competition.
So does that explain why my local cable company has a complete monopoly on all cable internet access? Oh, wait ...
Capitalism in the classic sense relies on faith that the "invisible hand" of the free market will promote competition ... which obviously it does not, without regulation to prevent monopolies from taking over.
christians being bad doesn't justify muslims being bad
Nope -- but you wouldn't condemn all of Christianity for the actions of just a few "fringe" Christians, would you? Because that is what many people are doing in this thread -- calling for Islam to be outlawed because they believe it is a "corrupt" religion due to the actions of fringe elements.
The point is that people who believe their religion is somehow superior to another religion are delusional and dangerous -- and that goes for people of any religion.
People do commit violence and terrorist acts in the name of Jesus Christ. The KKK is a notable example of this.
Here are just a few recent examples of terrorist acts committed by Christians for religious reasons that I was able to find with very little research:
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rud
Religious violence is a widespread problem, and it's ethnocentric bigotry to suggest that Islam is somehow guilty of some moral corruption that is unique to that religion.
Since you are content to base your beliefs on blind prejudice and assumptions based on what you hear in the news, rather than doing some actual research, I've taken the liberty of spoon-feeding you some summaries of recent terrorist actions by Christians.
Here's some stuff, from the link I already provided:
Hindus in India
The Baptist Church of Tripura is alleged to have supplied the NLFT with arms and financial support and to have encouraged the murder of Hindus, particularly infants, as a means to depopulate the region of all Hindus.[28] In 2009, the Assam Times reported that about fifteen armed Hmar militants, members of Manmasi National Christian Army, tried to force Hindu residents of Bhuvan Pahar, Assam to convert to Christianity.[29] A few Christian evangelists in India have been accused of forced conversion of Hindus, and some of them have been for allegedly converting others by force.[30][31]
North America
The government paid religious societies to provide education to Native American children on reservations. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) founded additional American Indian boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Children were usually immersed in European-American culture through appearance changes with haircuts, were forbidden to speak their native languages, and traditional names were replaced by new European-American names. The experience of the schools was often harsh, especially for the younger children who were separated from their families. In numerous ways, they were encouraged or forced to abandon their Native American identities and cultures.[17] The number of Native American children in the boarding schools reached a peak in the 1970s, with an estimated enrollment of 60,000 in 1973. Especially through investigations of the later twentieth century, there have been many documented cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse occurring at such schools.[18][19] Since those years, tribal nations have increasingly insisted on community-based schools and have also founded numerous tribally controlled colleges. Community schools have also been supported by the federal government through the BIA and legislation. The largest boarding schools have closed. In some cases, reservations or tribes were too small or poor to support independent schools and still wanted an alternative for their children, especially for high school. By 2007, the number of Native American children in boarding schools had declined to 9,500.
Here's some stuff from another article on a related topic:
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 1975–1990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Utøya Island killings
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were unde
GP didn't call for banning all religion ... just Islam.
No, my insight is that claiming one mainstream religion is better than some other mainstream religion is missing the point entirely. And yes, people still do that kind of stuff.
It's tiresome to read the comments of a bunch of ignorant bigots who seem to think that their religion is superior to someone else's. Calling this a "discussion" when it's mostly hate-filled rhetoric is pretty fucking ridiculous.
i didnt bother reading anymore being that was the very first one on the list
I suppose there's no argument against bigotry when it is reinforced by a lack of intellectual rigor.
Way to ignore the fact that these people are harassing and terrorizing people who are just attempting to seek medical care ... and the link I provided that does outline the murders committed by anti-abortionists.
It's awful that 12 people were murdered by a religious extremist ... but it's ridiculous to carry on with the delusion that this is somehow unique to Islam, and that their religion should be banned, while yours is perfectly innocent and lily-white.
Anti-abortionists are waging a campaign of terror every day at abortion clinics across the country. They show up with nasty signs and video cameras, yelling at and videotaping women who are attempting to receive medical care. They want to intimidate and shame them into compliance ... and there is an implicit threat of violence due to the history of terrorist attacks on abortion clinics.
Christianity has the New Testament which is supreme over the Old and is very consistent in its advocacy of nonviolence.
“Thou Shall Not Ignore the Old Testament!”
New Testament Verses Which Demand Following the Old Testament and Law Contradictions:
I hear so many Christians now a days claim that the Old Testament is defunct for Jesus was the “lamb” to clear away its rules and regulations. This is just another bullshit scapegoat that Christians use to ignore the atrocities and bizarre laws commanded by their god. Their preachers spoon feed them that the Old Testament is no longer binding so that they can excuse the majority of evil that the bible promotes. I am so tired of Christians manipulating the scriptures so that they can assign a kinder nature to their God, that I have assembled a BRIEF list of verses which clearly show that the Old Testament is not to be ignored. Its laws should indeed be adhered to, for the New Testament demands it! After this section I shall list where the Bible contradicts itself concerning other laws.
1) “For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV) Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by until the end of human existence itself. None other then Jesus said so.
2) All of the vicious Old Testament laws will be binding forever. "It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)
3) Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn’t the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB)
3b) "All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness..." (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB)
3c) "Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
4) Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children according to Old Testament law. Mark.7:9-13 "Whoever curses father or mother shall die" (Mark 7:10 NAB)
5) Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for not washing his hands before eating. He defends himself by attacking them for not killing disobedient children according to the commandment: “He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.” (Matthew 15:4-7)
6) Jesus has a punishment even worse than his father concerning adultery: God said the act of adultery was punishable by death. Jesus says looking with lust is the same thing and you should gouge your eye out, better a part, than the whole. The punishment under Jesus is an eternity in Hell. (Matthew 5:27)
7) Peter says that all slaves should “be subject to [their] masters with all fear,” to the bad and cruel as well as the “good and gentle.” This is merely an echo of the same slavery commands in the Old Testament. 1 Peter 2:18
8) “Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law" (John7:19) and “For the law was given by Moses,..." (John 1:17).
9) “...the
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your
What about the treatment of Native Americans in the New World? Spanish Conquistadores conquered native villages, murdering or enslaving the men and beating the women until they "consented" to marriage with a Spanish soldier. They didn't respect the fact that the natives were already married, because they were "heathens."
The fact that "the worst atrocity committed in the name of Christianity" that you can think of was something that happened in Europe just speaks to your extreme ethnocentrism; who cares about what happened in the colonies to non-white people!
The resulting legacy of Islam is that for 1600 years, it has destroyed civilizations it has infiltrated.
Oh hey, look, 30 seconds of Googling and I've found a history of forced conversion to Christianity that stretches back for 1600 years.
So, what? Kill them all because they're Muslim, then? Don't you realize that's what the idiots on the other side of the pond are doing, and that basically makes you as good as the terrorists themselves?