@Fatal Freedoms,
Fatal_Freedoms;52522 wrote:I am for the last time, NOT a muslim that could not be further from the truth, in fact i'm an atheist and i see how violent ALL religions are, this includes Islam as well as christanity. If anyone sees one side of the issue it is you not I, I know christians are violent and I know muslims are violent, this is both sides, unlike you who likes to pretend his people are better than everyone else. But you must face reality.
What you know is that christians ONCE were violent -and what you should see is that Islamists STILL ARE!! The christians prophet said "turn the other cheek" and "pray for them that persecute you". The muslims prophet says to chop off their heads - and they ARE -- TODAY!!! What Islam needs is a reformation, just as christianity has had its own reformation and evolved. But it's 7th century dogma doesn't allow for change!!
As for thinking "my people" are better -- well, it's more western culture I think that is better - not any particular "people". The same culture that alllows you to disagree. In a muslim nation, they literally would kill you!! And for you to not see the difference in how some religions have evolved, and how some are still barbaric 7th centruy dogma - is to willfully blind yourself, due to your hate of religion in general.
Yes, I do believe western culture, with a firm foundation of judeao-christian culture, is better than other cultures, as the western culture has done more good for the most of humanity than any other culture that has preceded it. And while western culture has progressed, the Islamic culture/nations cannot grow up in to this modern day and age, due to their religion. They need a reformation, and a separation of "mosque and state", as christianity had. And I further believe the west and it's judeao-christian heritage is DEFINITELY better than the atheistic nations progress in human rights and "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". I'd be a fool to think otherwise....
By the way, here's an interesting "foolish" tidbit from the judaic heritage that might get you to wonder.....Certainly you've heard of the battle of Jericho -- where the jewish God told them to siege the city. He told them to march around it x amount of days (millions of marching feet, in lock-step, as has always been military tradition), periodically stopping to face the city walls and scream and blow trumpets and other horns at the top of their millions of lungs. As the "old myths" tell us, the walls eventually crumbled and fell, allowing them easy entrance to rush in and defeat the city.
Foolish religion? Or maybe what we now know of as "mechanical resonance", as told to them by their God.....
Even today, military formations do not march in lockstep to cross bridges - due to that ol' mechanical resonance thing. I doubt the ancient peoples knew about it (no bridges long enough to ever see it's effects) yet, somehow the God of a "foolish" religion told them what they needed to do to bring down solid stone walls.....Tons of pressure waves/resonance by sound, in the air, pushing on the walls (much like a singer hitting a high note and shattering a glass), and mechanical resonance of the land, due to millions of marching feet, vibrating to the walls and eventually crumbling them....Interesting, to say the, least.
Foolish?? Or is there maybe something there.....