There is a simple way to sort out where the blame goes, either to the religion or a person. A religion is judged by its scriptures and its prophets, and people by their words and deeds. Muslim people, lots of them, are rioting. These are not "protests" or "demonstrations", these are violent murderous riots with guns and flames and everything you would expect from a riot. These people, who are muslim, are evil and should be punished for their actions and neither websites (wasn't this thread about yahoo?) nor governments nor businesses should bow to the influence of evil insane people who are bent on destruction. These people are committing acts of evil over a cartoon for cryin out loud. That is stupid. They claim they've been "offended" but how offended are the families of the victims of these muslim rioters? And what compassion or love are these muslim terrorists showing towards their victims or their families? If a religion isn't useful at getting people to love one another and not murder one another, its a failure as a religion. While you can't necessarily judge a religion based upon the actions of its followers, you would have to be an idiot to not draw some empirical evidence from these violent events about the nature of the Islam religion. Extremist muslims are committing acts of evil and claiming that it is the will of God to do so.
Religious extremism in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing (Christ is a christian religious extremist), but apparently when the religion is Islam, it leads to rioting and people getting beheaded for no good reason. The religion of Islam itself must be solely judged by its scriptures and by its prophet. Was this prophet a good man or a bad man? Was he full of love and compassion or hate? We know for a fact that Muhammed led troops in war and had multiple wives. Seems wrong to me. The spanish inquisition and the crusades, which were perpetrated by the roman catholic church, are an example of people doing evil acts. But to judge the religion of christianity based upon their actions is a non sequitur, a religion can only be accurately be judged by its scriptures and its prophets.
In Christianity, the man Jesus Christ (Iesous Christos in greek) spoke at great length about how his true disciples should be harmless as doves, turn the other cheek, give, love, and forgive. He said that if his disciples do not forgive, neither will THEY be forgiven. Jesus is, was, and always will be the most extremist Christian, seeing as he is the Christ, the Son of the living God. We all know how he died, and he did not resist his oppressors but gave himself over to them to be crucified. Such is the example that the Scriptures of the christian religion gives to its followers. The disciples of Christ are in varying levels of maturity, some have been long time followers, some only recently have been born again. But a born again christian is commanded by his Lord to forgive and love, trusting that God in his own time will take his vengeance. Christians who are killing people and bombing doctors and abortion clinics are 1) impatient 2) unloving 3) murderous. They are not following the example set by Christ and therefore are committing acts of evil.
We need to get away from the political-religious mindthink of this situation and get back to defining what really is evil and what is not. Killing? obviously evil. no one should do it. Stealing? also. The less people that are out there doing evil deeds and otherwise being mean nasty jerks, the better. I judge the religion of Islam based on its ridiculous text in its scriptures. As for the muslims themselves, we christians we realize they are blinded by the evil one into doing evil acts. If they saw the peaceful loving example of the man Jesus Christ, our Lord, and if they believed that he was God in the flesh, then they would go a long way towards improving the situation in the middle east. As for homosexuality, that was taboo in cultures throughout the world regardless of religion. Christians simply believe that
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There is a simple way to sort out where the blame goes, either to the religion or a person. A religion is judged by its scriptures and its prophets, and people by their words and deeds. Muslim people, lots of them, are rioting. These are not "protests" or "demonstrations", these are violent murderous riots with guns and flames and everything you would expect from a riot. These people, who are muslim, are evil and should be punished for their actions and neither websites (wasn't this thread about yahoo?) nor governments nor businesses should bow to the influence of evil insane people who are bent on destruction. These people are committing acts of evil over a cartoon for cryin out loud. That is stupid. They claim they've been "offended" but how offended are the families of the victims of these muslim rioters? And what compassion or love are these muslim terrorists showing towards their victims or their families? If a religion isn't useful at getting people to love one another and not murder one another, its a failure as a religion. While you can't necessarily judge a religion based upon the actions of its followers, you would have to be an idiot to not draw some empirical evidence from these violent events about the nature of the Islam religion. Extremist muslims are committing acts of evil and claiming that it is the will of God to do so.
Religious extremism in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing (Christ is a christian religious extremist), but apparently when the religion is Islam, it leads to rioting and people getting beheaded for no good reason. The religion of Islam itself must be solely judged by its scriptures and by its prophet. Was this prophet a good man or a bad man? Was he full of love and compassion or hate? We know for a fact that Muhammed led troops in war and had multiple wives. Seems wrong to me. The spanish inquisition and the crusades, which were perpetrated by the roman catholic church, are an example of people doing evil acts. But to judge the religion of christianity based upon their actions is a non sequitur, a religion can only be accurately be judged by its scriptures and its prophets.
In Christianity, the man Jesus Christ (Iesous Christos in greek) spoke at great length about how his true disciples should be harmless as doves, turn the other cheek, give, love, and forgive. He said that if his disciples do not forgive, neither will THEY be forgiven. Jesus is, was, and always will be the most extremist Christian, seeing as he is the Christ, the Son of the living God. We all know how he died, and he did not resist his oppressors but gave himself over to them to be crucified. Such is the example that the Scriptures of the christian religion gives to its followers. The disciples of Christ are in varying levels of maturity, some have been long time followers, some only recently have been born again. But a born again christian is commanded by his Lord to forgive and love, trusting that God in his own time will take his vengeance. Christians who are killing people and bombing doctors and abortion clinics are 1) impatient 2) unloving 3) murderous. They are not following the example set by Christ and therefore are committing acts of evil.
We need to get away from the political-religious mindthink of this situation and get back to defining what really is evil and what is not. Killing? obviously evil. no one should do it. Stealing? also. The less people that are out there doing evil deeds and otherwise being mean nasty jerks, the better. I judge the religion of Islam based on its ridiculous text in its scriptures. As for the muslims themselves, we christians we realize they are blinded by the evil one into doing evil acts. If they saw the peaceful loving example of the man Jesus Christ, our Lord, and if they believed that he was God in the flesh, then they would go a long way towards improving the situation in the middle east. As for homosexuality, that was taboo in cultures throughout the world regardless of religion. Christians simply believe that