On Boston suspects: Maher To Defender Of Islam: Equating Christianity And Islam "Liberal Bullshit"

[davidthegnome]

60. Inaccurate.

Either historically, or today, Christianity is no less violent than Islam. The primary difference is that the Nations of the west where Christianity is more common have more money and more power... and that when we kill people, we call it either war on terror, or, "unfortunate casualties". Christians not as dangerous? No, just not as openly so, not as obviously so - and not as hyped up by the media. Not despised and hated by America's right wing machine, because the people that run the right wing machine are usually "Christian" themselves.

I do not like organized religion. Everyone has a right to their own spiritual and philosophical beliefs, but to claim that one or another is more dangerous is the true bull shit here. As Maher has gleefully pointed out in the past, they are selling an invisible product, that people eagerly buy because it is damnably hard to find meaning in this age.

If we are going to generalize, Christianity is in actuality even MORE dangerous than Islam. Speaking generally, the "Christian Nations" of the west developed nuclear weapons, the hydrogen bomb, they created, enabled and promoted the crusades. Our own so called Christian Nation is, in fact, the only one to ever use a nuclear weapon (two of them, actually) against a civilian populace. Those who think that we're much better now should consider the long years of sanctions, bombing, and destruction in Iraq. It should be considered what our drones are doing now. Is this Christian policy, or American policy?

If everything Muslims do has some connection to them being Muslim, then the same must hold true of Christianity.

It's all bull shit, really. People do evil things - and need no encouragement nor even inspiration from religion. Religion just most often serves as a convenient excuse. "Well, God told me to do it..."