Christianity Is A Religion Of Peace. Except When They’re Calling For Muslim Genocide
AUTHOR: LEFT WING NATION JANUARY 13, 2015 12:17 PM
Never,
of course. Why? Because, in America, we treat Christians and Muslims
the same way we treat white people and black people: When a Christian
blows up a building filled with kids, it’s just an “ISOLATED INCIDENT”
but when a Muslim kills anyone, anywhere in the world for any reason,
it’s proof that all Muslims are crazed fanatics steeped in blood.
For example, right now, the American “Christian” right wing is frothing at the mouth for Muslim death and genocide:
“In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack, anti-Muslim ranting at right wing blogs has reached an insane feverish pitch, totally out of control, and not a single blogger or commenter is denouncing it. It’s off the scale; I’ve never seen it worse than this.For example, at Breitbart “News,” whose editor John Nolte was recently invited onMeet the Press, they’ve posted a video of Ralph Peters on Fox News calling for the Muslim world to be reduced to “smoking ruins and crying widows,” and it led to an outpouring of incredibly vicious comments calling for genocide; at last count, 4,342 of them.”
Because Christianity is a religion of peace, right? Here’s 12 recent examples of how “peaceful” Christianity is. The full list is much much longer.
Let’s
be honest here: The only difference between Muslim and Christian
extremists is that the West freed itself from religious rule while the
Middle East succumbed to theocracy several hundred years ago and never
escaped. Why do you think conservative Christian extremists want to turn
America into a theocracy? Because the Bible really is a
blueprint for running a global superpower or because it would allow
them to carry out their oft-stated desire to execute homosexuals, reduce
women to broodmares and slaughter heretics and unbelievers?
There’s
no real qualitative difference between the two religions. Both call for
genocide numerous times. Both are extremely intolerant of heresy. Both
are drenched in blood. So when people declare that Islam is uniquely a
religion of violence, they’re drawing the wrong conclusions.
Here’s
an interesting test: If Islam is, indeed, the root cause of terrorism,
why does it only seem to flow from cultures that can be charitably
described as “barbaric”? Why isn’t America, home to millions of Muslims,
overflowing with homegrown Muslim terrorists? Instead, we find in most
cases that the few that we’ve had are recent arrivals to America or were
influenced by someone from one of the aforementioned barbaric cultures.
And
that’s the part people who hate Islam never want to discuss: Countries
that allow Muslims to integrate into society have very little problem
with their Muslim populations. Look at any other immigrant group in the
United States. By the third generation, the Italians, the Irish, the
Russians, the Latinos, etc. are so thoroughly integrated into society,
they hardly think of themselves as anything but “American.” Think
Muslims are different?Good luck instilling the culture of savagery their
parents or grandparents fled from.
On
the other hand, countries like France and Switzerland have taken great
pains to keep their Muslim populations segregated. This provides fertile
ground for the barbarism of the Middle East to be effective
transplanted. Does this mean France deserves to be attacked by
terrorists? Of course not. But declaring war on Islam the way the
xenophobic right wants will only make it easier to spread the violent
rot that passes for a culture in many Middle Eastern countries.
I’m
a militant atheist and I think all religions are a dangerous waste of
time but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If the dominant
religion in the Middle East was Christianity, the terrorists would be
screaming “Praise Jesus!” instead of “Praise Allah!” before gunning down
an office full of cartoonists.
So
while we’re busy clutching our pearls over militant Muslims, we’ll just
keep pretending that militant Christians aren’t a threat even as they
openly talk about overthrowing the government, build compounds in the
middle of the woods and stockpile enough weapons to wipe out a small
city. We lost our minds over Muslims opening a community center several
blocks from the World Trade Center. Imagine the reaction if a group of
them built a militia compound in West Virginia! Panic in the streets!
Christian militias, though? No worries!
Right up until they blow up another building filled with kids.
But
don’t you dare blame Christianity! Christianity is a religion of peace
and Christians don’t have to apologize for their extremists. That burden
is only reserved for Muslims.
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