[Skybird]

It is very different on the institutional level.

Church does not represent Jesus teachings. Jesus is imo heart and core of christianity. Thus: church and christianity are two different things.

Islam is represented by it's teachings and scriptures. where the church fails to be in correspondence with the christian message, Islam IS in correspondence with it'S message.

So, when both institutions are acting in a way that makes them appear to produce the same results (f.e. violance, or intolerance), then this is for different reasons nevertheless: the church shows that behavior because it is not in correspondence with it'S spiritual teachings, Islam shows the very same behavior becasue IT IS in correspondence with it's teachings. so the difference between the teachings must be immense.

From that one can argue that the chruches acted violantly for selfish reasons based in the material world, for politics, economical interests. while this also may be true for Islam (that holds scoial life and politics and religion all in one hand, different than we do in the West), it also acts violantly for spiritual reasons. The church does do not like that. It can only be accused to have claimed to act in the name of FALSE spiritual teachings of it's own, a pervertion of it's original message.

So, the violance of the churches is a symptom of a deep inner desease. The violance of islam shows that it is healthy and strong and fully reflects it's teachings - it is no pervertion at all.

I don't defend the church for itself. I don't want to have anything to do with them. I'm just after illustrating the immense differences between Islam and Christianity, because today it is en vogue to ignore these, and instead babble of the many similarities and "shared values". Laughable.