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Originally Posted by mromro
Wow. The facts are the facts. Islam is a political ideology. Christianity, judaism, buddhism and other religions are spiritual and say not to be concerned with the rulers of this world for gods kingdom is spiritual.
Islam is a political ideology and should be treated as such. To think it is a religion is just plain stupidity and a lack of intelligence.
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sorry, you cant defend that premise, and simply repeating it is a demonstration that you have no clue how to argue your point.
I'm sure in your circles repeating a statement without demonstrating why it's true is considered the height of intellectual rigor and cleverness.
All religions make political statements and try to control social behaviors for their own benefit. "Kill them all - god will know his own" - recognize that quote?
We wouldn't be christians if it wasn't for mediterrean swords conquering klling and converting the northern europeans, as an example.
The only way you can claim that force and politics does not play a role in our favorite religions is to selectively edit out their history and to selectively edit the books.
mohammed was a warlord, and in that way was different from the supposed figure of yeshuah, but, the religion of yeshuah died, if yeshuah was a real figure, only the religion of constantine survived. And, for example, there is good reason to argue that yeshuah was actually a zealot, part of a cult of assassins. And many other figures whose stories were mixed into the jesus story were clearly militants and killers themsilves - and unlike yeshuah, they can actually be said to have really existed, as historical persons.
religion is not pretty, religious history is the history of blood, and only the ignorant and the self-deluded think otherwise.
anyway, I'd be curious to see what your "studies" tell you to say about islam. make an argument if you have one.