| sapphi_snake said: @Coca-Cola It's pretty good for Christian history if you have to go back to the Crusades to condemn us. Not bad at all. There has been some in-house fighting though but still that's long long time ago. Actually the more recent would be the forced conversion of native Americans (from both North adn South America). If it weren't for secularism we'd have a Christian Taliban on our hands for sure. The West started beeing a good place to live when religion started losing it's power. It's true that the biggest problem with Islam is place like Afghnistan where most terrorists are not educated and ride short camels. (I heard this on the radio today) You're denying the fact that poverty and lack of access to education and information makes people easily manipulable, thus easy target for terrorists to recruit? Also are you denying the fact that ultra-nationalism and religious fundamentalism are perfect mindsets to create terrorists? Why isn't Turkey even 20% as bad as Afghanistan in regards to terrorism? |
I would disagree that secularism made the west a good place.
I think Christianity made the West a great place.
Christian Taliban? haha. I'm sure you'd like for something like that but Christianity has evolved very well in the West -most productive and free.
I don't deny that lack of education and poverty is a huge problem. but a lot of these terrorists are well educated and rich - can't deny that.
I hope you'll be against closing down the churches or limiting their freedom of faith and worship (like Turkey) or communism of the past.
