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Originally Posted by scandium
Skybird, Christianity is based on both the Old and New Testament. The New Testament may be what makes it distinct from Judaism, but all mainstream Christian faiths base their teaching on both books.
The current "Intelligent Design" debate in the US, for instance, is based on Genesis which is from the Old Testament. The Ten Commandments that prescribe how a faithful Christian should conduct their lives are also from the Old Testament.
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I stick to it: Christian is who follows the Christ. Before Christ, there was no Christian religion. the Christian church is an ursupator only, it is not what Jesus was about, he did not found it, he did not authorize it. The only christian "club" that I could imagine to be in the following of Jesus, are the Christian mystics, not the church and not today'S fundamentalists, both all too often in clear violation of Jesus teachings. Without these teachings, christianity is nothing, meaningless. Institutionalization and politics started not before people like Paul took over. You have not understood that most essential difference between church and Jesus in a debate some days ago, and I think you will also try hard not to realize it today.
Where a Christian acts with terror and violance, he is violating his own religion named christianity, deriving from the Christ, Jesus. He can be a church member nevertheless. The church is not Jesus, and never was.
In contrast to that, the institutional structures of Islam had been rasied and, in a way, authorized by Muhammad. Where Jesus did not found a church, Muhammad did.
Where A Muslim acts with terror and violance, he is not violating but followung the explicit rules and demands as set up by Islam's founder, Muhammad, in word, practice and teaching.
Muhammad murderd men already when he was leading caravans of his uncle thorugh the desert. He ordered 70-80 wars and pradotry raids. He ordered mass murder and genocide. He orderd murder and torture. He orderd slavery and supression.
Now show me where in the teachings of Jesus, Christians are ordered to do all that. Jesus, like buddha, tought exactly the opposite.
This difference is what it all comes down to. And btw, even the ursupatory christian chruches has seen a develoepment that made it less tyrannic and murderous than it was during the inquisition. Whereas the history of Islam is that of constant aggression, landtaking, war, violant subjugation (have you red the news on Somalia today?), and cultural cleansing up to the very present.
Read the article I linked to one post above.