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Originally Posted by TheDoc
The Muslim faith vs. the Evangelical faith base, Christianity, to current day standards? umm... I don't think you know much about the Muslim faith if you made that statement. And I'm not talking about Radicals.
The Evangelicals may be extreme but they do not "force" a way of life on you. Both may want to force Gods rule of thumb on you, but that's all religions. The difference is personal freedom of choice and no way on gods green earth you will ever convince me that the Muslim faith has the same personal choice freedoms as any Christian based belief.
I'm not Christian either.
And if we step, even .1% out of the Muslim faith, well .. last time I checked Christians aren't going around blowing up innocent people. I'm not saying Christians haven't spilled blood, we know they have. But to todays standard - not even close.
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You are painting both faiths with such a large brush, but both have such a broad range of colours, its not really accurate to do so.
Want an example of 'Christians' killing? How about the Catholic church not accepting/allowing the use of condoms which in turn is causing many thousands to be infected and eventually die of AIDS in Africa. Need an example with guns/weapons? How about the wackjobs who were shooting doctors who performed abortions, or were firebombing abortion clinics in the 90s?
I also have to disagree with you about the Evangelicals not forcing their way of life on us. By getting in to the top levels of government and controlling policy they are able to do so. Bush did some damage to stem cell research as one small example.
Religion is a large part of a person's life. There is no way for it not to spill over in to decision making in politics.