I'm not even baptized, I don't believe in Jesus being the son of God and all that stuff. However comparing Christianity to Islam is pretty ignorant.
Thanks for reading the rest of my statement.
Try and find me a passage in the new testament which calls for violence and death…
The Book of Revelation is arguably the most violent book in the entire bible. New or Old Testament.
Either way, a book is a book. It's what people
do with the book that we're discussing here. If you had read the rest of my statement above, Christianity is a litmus test for the presidency of the United States. The country that has been at war for the vast majority of it's existence. George Bush even went to far as to say "God told me to invade Iraq". I'm pretty sure Jesus didn't tell his followers to murder 100,000 people. Just as the Quran is taken horribly out of context by those who want to look for reasons to condemn it. I'm an atheist as well, I have no horse in this race. But if we're going to point out contradictions and misrepresentations of one religion, we have to do so to all religions. Christians, in lowly or on places of high power still practice brutality as well.
And btw referring to the previous post there is only ONE version of Islam, the version written in the Quran and the Hadiths, there isn't a peaceful, tolerant or progressive version of Islam.
This is just untrue. Many sects and divisions sprouted out of Islam after Mohammed died, they each have their own system of beliefs, political differences, social differences
even within the same sect. Islam in not Monolithic.
Muslims who are tolerant and compassionate towards others non-muslims aren't truly following their religion, they simply place humanitarian ideals before their religious belief, which is actually a positive thing.
Jesus explicitly said to include all of man. So those who discriminate or exclude others aren't true Christians. How many Christians don't support free healthcare, is that very Christ-like? What about the ones who let people starve on the streets, are they true Christians? "It's easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god." This one's pretty self explanatory. Simply judging another is strictly forbidden, how many Christians are without judgement of any kind? Hate isn't very Christy, either, is it?
Are there ANY real Christians?
Your argument here is the exact same one used by the Catholic church against the reformation.