"I would respond to this hypothetical person by asking whether they felt these heinous acts (rapes, assaults, murder, robbery, sexual perversion) were done in the name of the Christian religion, or in stark contrast to what Christ taught his followers?
The point of that exercise was not to ask what kind of debate you could have as a representative of Christianity. I know what that debate would look like, and what your positions would be in a comparative analysis of the cultures and view points.
What I was attempting to do with that hypothetical was to get persons like yourself to answer a question for your self. If someone attributed things to Christianity and described Christians only from a perspective in which they had been fed anti-Christian information, would you think of them as a valid spokes person. Would you listen to them? Do you think you should be listened to by them? A double standard never works.
It doesn't seem you were able answer that question for me or yourself. You are showing me that if you were that person you would continue talking about Christians from his Anti-Christian perspective and knowledge base ... Would you suggest he be listened to? Or would you suggest he try to understand things from your, a Christian's, perspective.
I don't mean this as a put down but I think you missed the point in your excitement to tell me how good your religion is in comparison to how much we need to force Islam to change to be more like it.
" So what I would like to see (and I realize, this is only on a National scale, and I also realize some of this is already happening)...I would like to see Law Enforcement prosecuting terrorist activities to the full extent of the law. And I would like to see it taught in the mosques and madrassas that if you know of any of this sort of activity being planned or perpetrated, it is Allah's will (if it indeed, IS) that they should be turned-over to Law Enforcement authorities, and there is no place in paradise (if indeed there ISN'T) for those that would perform such acts.
Me too... |
