Islam is not bad, too many of you are ignorant of history.

[sapphi_snake]

Joelcool7 said:

Depends on which countries your talking about.

African Catholics are far more conservative than say Catholics in Canada or the US. Catholic's here in Canada are split on many issues, they try to be hip and relevent while throwing out their roots. Heck I knew some Catholics in my school who invited me to an Orgy. They said I was Christian and they liked that, I got offended and told them I didn't believe in orgies.

They were like, well we go to confession on Friday and we ask for forgiveness and that makes everything good. You can have all the sex you want and God will always forgive you. They also were stoners and many of them loved getting drunk.

Infact looking at them theirs many Athiests who were more conservative. But then you hear about the Catholics in North Africa who are condeming the North American Catholics for their liberalism.

I think today the Christian identity is split. Many want to fit in with todays culture they want their beliefs to be cool and politically correct. While other Christians want to conserve their beliefs and live pure biblical lives. Then theirs some in between.

Its an identity crisis. Sapphi obviously has had a bad experiance with the Christian's in his country. Its understandable but its pretty bad to lump all Christian's into the same catagory. To stereo type us all. Super Chunk sure wouldn't like it if we all just stereotyped Muslims too.

Yah all Muslims are gun weilding suicidal terrorists out to kill innocent unarmed civilians and abuse women (P.S I'm not calling all Muslims terrorists, I'm making a point)

But I have to agree with Slime Beast Christianity has not shed the blood that Islamic extremists have. I won't go as far as to say Islam is more violent because the crusades were pretty bad but I'd say as far as organised religion goes neither one can be considered to have been better.

In closing, Christianity is clearly a peaceful religion. If you go by the text (New Testiment) it is perhaps the most peaceful religion on earth (Fighting Buddhism for first place) Where as the Qur'an whether in or out of context is far more violent. Regardless of the actions of its followers and just based on the holy texts Christianity is no doubt more peaceful then Islam.

Buddhism ismore peacefull. But at the end of the day anyone can justify any attrocity using any religion.