The main point is if a man calling himself muslim does something its Islam's fault.
If a Christian does the same, suddenly terrorism has no religion? He isn't a true christian?
Either both religions are at fault or none of them is. You can't have it both ways.
This relies on a false assumption that both religions are the same. That's simply not true. All religions are not the same. You can't simply lump them all together.
Divide, divide, divide. Why oh why does this trap continue to play out here. Catch your breath people.
Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father a daughter against her mother a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ -Matthew 10:34
I'm not a pawn of elites. My stuff is not coming from elites. My beliefs come from the Bible. If we go by the Bible, Muhammad is a false prophet and anti-Christ. That's simply the result that we get if look at Muhammad from the standpoint of the Bible. I go by the Bible. I'm not following some elite agenda.
And I'm not anti-Muslim. I'm not for hatred against Muslims. Believe it or not, disagreeing with people does not equal hatred.
Muslims are free to disagree with my beliefs and I'm free to disagree with their beliefs. I can say Jesus is the Son of God and they can say he's a prophet. It's not the end of the world.
This is like social justice warrior logic. The idea that disagreeing with people=hate is straight social justice warrior logic. You can't say you're against transgenderism because you're promoting hate. You can't say you believe homosexuality is a sin because you're promoting hate.
Look, people are free to do as they please. I'm not going to hate a muslim if they say they believe Jesus was a prophet and that Christians are associating a partner with Allah. They're free to argue for their beliefs. In fact, I respect them for speaking up for what they believe in. If they decided "we're not gonna say anything that might offend Christians" then I would kinda think they were spineless. I like Haich, manama, Kung Fu and God is Formless. They all seem like cool people to me. I don't hate anyone for disagreeing with me.
Intolerance is when you try to tell people they can't express their beliefs and shut down the free exchange of ideas. Disagreeing with people is not intolerance. I assume people are mature adults and that we can disagree over whether Jesus was a deity or a prophet without people getting violent. I understand in theory people could get violent but they could get violent over anything. I'm not going to simply never disagree with people. Liberals wouldn't be able to debate conservatives- someone might get hurt. Conservatives wouldn't be able to debate liberals- someone might get hurt. The world is a dangerous place. We just have to accept it for what it is. We can't try to turn the world into a giant, sanitized safe-space. If people can't handle that, they can run to a safe space where they won't hear anything that might hurt their feelings. It's absurd, this postmodern new age logic that you can't disagree with people and that disagreement is hate. Can you imagine if scientists adopted that logic? Science would never advance. Galileo would have never spoke up because he wouldn't want to offend anyone. Socrates would have never spoke up because he wouldn't want to offend anyone. He would have never taught Plato. Plato would have never taught Aristotle. Jesus would have never spoke up. Don't believe the watered-down, PC version of Jesus they try to make people believe in- Jesus apparently was seen as enough of a threat that they killed him. He offended a lot of people. Muhammad would have never spoke up and there wouldn't be Islam.
Now this is true- if I was here trying to make you hate Muslims, I would be wrong. Christians have to love Muslims. But I'm not trying to make people hate each other. If someone is saying "evolution is wrong" or "creationism is wrong", that's not hate. That's just people disagreeing about ideas. Someone could go out and shoot an evolutionist or creationist. But that's the fault of that individual. We can't simply say "well now we have to shut down debates about evolution". That's exactly the sort of logic being forced on people. "Ahhhh! Terrorism!! we have to give up our rights!!"- no, I reject that. I might be against Isis or whatever but if Muslims want to try to preach their religion and try to debunk Christianity, they can do that. A Muslim who loves their religion and tries to convince me Jesus was a prophet is not the same as isis. I'm not some Christian equivalent of isis if I disagree with Islam.
I showed how Jesus taught that his message would divide people. So dividing people might not necessarily be bad. For example, I think individuals and nations should be free and independent. You have a right to say what you wish. If you're attacking people rather than ideas, I think that's bad but I don't think there's anything wrong with discussing ideas. But in any case- what is the elite ultimately trying to do?
The elite is out to unite everyone. They don't want individuals and nations to be free and independent. They don't want things like national sovereignty. They want the centralization of power. So I think the good fight is for the decentralization of power. I don't want all the religions to be turned into one homogeneous blob- a "New World Religion". I want things to be decentralized. I'm not trying to become part of some One World System. I like being free and independent and having my own perspective and I simply won't give that up. I don't want others to either. I respect Muslims like Grateful Servant who are not afraid to offend me and who try to convince me to become Muslim. I respect people like that. I don't want people to compromise in order to not offend me, nor do I wish to make such a compromise. When we both begin making these compromises, it furthers the agenda of the centralization of power and a One World System. I want to things to be decentralized. I don't want a One World System. I don't want all the religions to become a unified, homogeneous blob and I don't want things to become any more centralized than they already are.
If people can't be mature and understand that disagreeing about ideas is nothing to become violent over and cannot understand the difference between attacking ideas and people, then that is their problem, it's not mine.
Seriously, I love Grateful Servant, God is Formless, manama, Haich, and Kung Fu. I'm still hoping that manama will one day apply her debating skills to attacking evolution. I can only dream.
