The new testament marks the key difference between judaism and christianity. Its where Christianity becomes its own thing and God stops being treated as a militant god of the jews and more like an actualy benevolent god.
And on Islam, yea, I never bought the idea of Islam somehow being a religion of peace. The only reason Islam even exists is because of war (Islam is one of the only religions that was almost exclusively spread through war).
... if by "One of the only" you mean "like every major religion". Seriously, check your history -- every single major religion in existence spread primarily through conquest, coming on the back of an invader, or backed by very substantial degrees of force. Christianity did, hinduism did, buddhism did, freaking Jainism experienced one of its largest propagation points on the back of an expansionist government. Saying that Islam is particularly unusual or egregious in the extent it was spread by the sword strikes me as incredibly ignorant of human history.
As for the rest of this painfully standard and desultory anti-islam spiel, y'all are welcome to continue to say the vast goddamn majority of Muslim practitioners have no idea how to follow their own religion and are just one "proper" interpretation of the Qu'ran from running out and murdering everyone. About 1/3rd of the human population will continue to prove that bullshit as bullshit.
haha silly frumple what do you mean indonesia exists no thanks islam is a religion of hatred gib it about ten years and europe will be islamope hurp hurp hurp
A certain indonesian christian girl I know would probably enjoy talking to you about how muslims have persecuted her family while they were in Indonesia, how they close non islamic businesses during holidays, the fact the great majority of terrorist cells in Indonesia are islamic, etc.
And never did I say other religions were not spread by the sword. Most were, even the so called peaceful ones like buddhism, however, islam is special since it was spread by violence by
design. Holy war/jihad is a concept thats very much accepted and inherent to Islam, as it was spread through violent at its very root, in agressive moves that wiped out entire african and middle eastern cultures and even ethnic groups. This is why muslim terrorism is a reality even in relatively peaceful places.
Christiany was certainy spread with violence and coercion throughout history, but not at its core. Christ did tell his followers to acquire swords, but that they could
survive, given they were persecuted by both jewish clerics and the Roman Empire. Christianity started being spread through large scale violence with the conversion of the Roman Empire, but before that it was spreading mostly due to having a popular message, as Roman historians like Tacitus like grudgingly point out at several points in history. Buddhism likewise had a peaceful and humanitarian start, which didn't stop it from later becoming the core cause of several wars in india, china, japan and the middle east.
Pretending Islam somehow is somehow similar to other religions because said religions were involved in violent conflicts at one point or another in history is misguided at the very least.
Keep in mind that Islam's violent startup isn't even a point of contention, in fact it is well documented by islamic scriptures, and proudly so.
We do, however, have to make a key distinction. Most islamic terrorist groups consist of sunni muslims. There are shia terrorists, yes, but the shia are very persecuted minority among muslims and have suffered from the violent militant tendencies of Islam as much as any other people.
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