"Who's Taking Blame for Christian Violence?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand.

Contrary to what some might like to insist, Christianity is not the religion of "an eye for an eye" but it is the religion of Jesus, who refined those earlier directions and distilled the ten commandments into two. One was to "love thy neighbor as thyself." Pretty definitive isn't it? As is the edict of turning the other cheek.

Jesus expected to be betrayed. He expected to be arrested by the authorities. There was no exhortations to prepare for battle. There was no bloody attempt to stop the proceedings.

Even as Jesus was brutalized while carrying his own crucifixion cross and being nailed onto the timbers, there was no violent counterforce from his disciples. Not even an outcry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0726-32.htm

[Beaver Tail]

1. Christians speak out

is not as good of a story to the MSM as Muslims speak out.

I have personally seen Christian leaders denounce the terrorist attacks but because the perception is most terrorist are Muslims (I stress the word perception) then Muslims speaking against “their own people” (again, a perception) it sells papers.

It's all about money

[madrchsod]

2. i am...onward christian soldiers!

marching "as" to war! with the cross of jesus!

[Beaver Tail]

3. Did you hear? The words have changed

Marching off to WalMart