"Obama is acting like Bush"

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, all have their people who use it as an excuse to be sh*ty to others. Spin the wheel and get a prize.

Buddahaid

You need to pervert the sermon on the mountain or other preachings by Jesus and must ignore him in order to behave sh*tty to others, to use your words.

You need to pervert Muhammad and be disobedient to him in order to behave tolerant and respectful to other cultures and relgions.

Either this tells oyu something, or it doesn't. The Quran is on the level of the Old Testament, and stayed there. but the Bible has a New Testament as well - and that is very different to the old one. Quran has no parrallel to that.

If christianity would have gotten stuck with the old testament only, it would be a problem for all mankind today, too. And in fundamentalist Christian communities that take the old testament serious and read the whole bible literally anyway, you see that being the case indeed. And the long since gone past of the churches saw them acting inhumane and barbaric too - in violation of Jesus
preachings, not in obedience to his teachings.

Never forget where the Quran comes from: it is the collection of speeches that Muhammad made to justify himself and to motivate and fire up his followers to follow him into the fights and battles he brought upon others (almost 70 wars and predatory raids he waged in his life as prohet) to subjugate them, and make himself unavailable to criticism of follwers who would risk death since criticism of the leader was equal to religious heresy. That the dead have to be buried the same day, also comes from this: to prevent Muhammad's followers to think about the latest bloodshed and aggression when the dead are too long on their minds. Get the bodies out of sight as soon as possible, therefore. Tell people not to mourn the dead.

Now compare that with lets say the sermon on the mountain. How many wars have Jesus authorised? How many men has he slain himself? How many predatory raids did he ordered? How many genocides (like Muhammad in Medina) has he unleashed? Was Jesus a murderer and bandit like muhammad? A conqueror and warmonger? Say, how many caravans has Jesus robbed before he started preaching, and how many of his followers had to flee him in order to save their lives from his wrath?

It is very ignorrant to compare these two books or persons with each other and indicate they are essentially the same. You could as well compare Mother Theresa with Jack the Ripper.