does Christianity promote terrorism and violence if not the why America attacked Iraq?
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LOL!!\nChristinaity promotes love and peace and brotherhood of all humans, Islam promotes peace and love and equality of all humans, judism I guess promotes the same values.\nIf you are looking for a culprit for all those pointless wars search for material and political gains (petrolium, terrotrial gain, influence..etc). religions are perfectly innocent (although political leaders who wish to turn their citizens into angry morons who would sacrifice their money, lives and loved ones for the sake of making'em richer and more powerfull would love to convince you of the contrary.
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nationalism and religion are the leading causes of war
1073505
I agree that it "Islamic Terrorism" is a misnomer since the terrorists are motivated on the basis of political considerations rather than purely religious ones. Also, you are right to point out that when Christians commit hate crimes, they are not labeled "Christian Terrorists" but instead are looked upon as a single freak outlaw or as political activists. I also agree that Americans are largely ignorant of the beliefs and practices of the average Muslim and are therefore very easily convinced that Islam is a violent religion when the truth is that all the monotheistic religions are capable of inciting violence in their believers. However, I think you are wrong to blame this on the so-called brain-washing of "Jews who have tremendous hold over the mdeia - electronic and print - in the U.S." This comment shows that you are just as prone to believe in stereotypes, thereby misinterpreting and overstating the influence of Jews, as Americans, or for that matter, the people of any other nation are.\n\nA closed-minded xenophobe is a closed-minded xenophobe, and politically-motivated paranoia is politically-motivated paranoia. Your efforts to shift the blame wrongly placed on the Muslims to the Jews is transparent and unfair. No nation, no religion, no people has a monopoly on innocence and goodness, nor on evil and self-serving hypocrisy, for that matter.
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War is a political action to acquire land. Don't ever let the Religion part fool you.\nWhat does a true christian have  to do with killing?\nNone.
808476
You sound foreign, perhaps you are from Iraq. The killing of innocents will definitely  be avenged by God if not here on earth. I know that the vast majority of people in Iraq just want to live peaceful lives as do most Americans. It's just the leaders who don't do the actual fighting that keep the animosity going.
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I regret I have to disagree. First of all , it doesn't mean just because you are Christian, you can neccessary be good. There is no relation betwen non corruption and Christian. Secondly, all the examples of problems cited occur in any country. The US is not alone in this. Thirdly, practices such as the death penalty and the conducting of wars are not neccessary bad. Just imagine what would have happen if the US didn't enter the Gulf War to drive the Iraqis from Kuwait. The balance of power will not only be changed in the Middle East, but the whole world.\n\nSo, having said this, I can't say the US is a corrupt place. Not completely anyway.
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By invading Iraq illegally America has created a new heaven for terrorists. The daily bombings in our country and the sectarian violence are all caused by the American presence on our land. America it self is protecting a terrorist state in Israel. The only way to fight terrorism is to go back into the root cause of terrorism. By attacking every nation that does not agree with American policies will only create more terrorists. Only a brainless moron thinks that he can tame these terrorists with terror tactics.
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"War on Islam" sounds best. I'd hate to say it, but with the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (mainly Muslim countries), and with the stanch U.S. support of Israel, it looks like Christians and Jews are ganging up on Muslims. This is why more Muslims are joining the Jihadist movement than ever before. It is clearly no longer a "war on terror" because the Iraq war has actually increased terrorism and Muslim support for terrorism. Pres. Bush and his party used the war on terror as a platform, but voters clearly showed yesterday how they feel about the Republican strategy. Our foreign policy needs to change quickly or else I fear a worldwide religious war is imminent.
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Religions are based on "faith".\n\nFaith is belief without reason or evidence.  If you are following something without evidence, you are following an irrational belief.  We have histories of people using religion to justify genocide, torture, or criminal acts against humanity.\n\nI think it is extremely dangerous that religious nations' have access to weapons of mass destruction.  \n\nFor that matter, I do not think that any nation is responsible enough to have weapons of mass destruction.  When resources are scarce, people will use whatever means are necessary to acquire those resources... even it entails the use of horrific acts.  They will just blame it on religion or something else to distance the blame from themselves.
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Very interesting question indeed!  I believe that the knee-jerk reaction to this question would be "no", however, when thinking about it more broadly--I guess ultimately the answer is "yes".  Perhaps this is the basis of "justified war" that religious organizations speak about.  A good example from recent history would be the horrific events of Nazi Germany, Rwanda & currently in Darfur & Congo.  Since  genocide was (is) happening, violence may be necessary--and then acceptable to put an end to the problem.
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Depends on your and their definition of the term Christian? Everyone who calls themselves a Christian is not  Christ’s disciple. But from a Biblical perspective, I would think that  Messiah would have been more likely to support one of the many Israeli insurgent rag tag armies, like the one that finally rose up against the emperor in 70 ad and resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the loss of their country, than that of the occupying Roman Army. As an interesting aside, some  scholars believe that Barabbus, the man who was released  by Pilate, instead of Messiah by the vote of the people, was  a leader of  such a group of anti- Roman insurrectionist, and not just a common criminal.  That the Messiah supported  neither worldly army or supported any earthy kingdom and preached against violence, would cause you to think these facts alone would give the modern right wing, patriotic, Bush supporting,  Jingoistic American Christians a clue, but they remain clueless and will till the Anti-Christ deceives them fully.
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I don't know, but the former Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft, said something like "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him.  Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you."  Personally I think that was an insulting and offensive to the Muslim world.  Unfortunately I have yet to hear a better distinction drawn.
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Of course. This has always been the case.\n\nReligions are very good at manipulating the masses. As long as you cater to the people's beliefs, you can make them do just about anything you want. Hence, things Islamic terrorism and the Christian crusades.\n\nA lot of the people in the US who think they are religious are mostly just fooling themselves. Why? Because they're okay with the idea of killing thousands of Iraqi's while at the same time opposing abortion. Because they're okay with torture and extrordinary rendition.\n\nThe New Testament does not contain a passage that says, "Thou shalt not kill, unless thine enemy is believed to possesth Weapons Of Mass Destruction". Nor is there a passage that says, "If thine enemey be a terrorist, thou shalt torture thine enemy. If thy countrymen opposeth thy torture, then thou shalt move thine terrorist to a foriegn country and tortureth mightily".\n\nThe new testament teaches about forgiveness and turning the other cheek. It teaches about loving thy enemy and tolerance. In other words, it teaches exactly opposite of what most religious people seem to believe.\n\nReligion has always been a tool of th powerful.\n\nI say that all these people should just stop pretending and modify their religion to support these double standards, instead of trying to justify their actions by forcing special interpretations of a 2000 year old book about invisible sky wizards. The new religion should be called something like "The American Testament: My God Will Kick Your A$$". Book I could be the Book of Bush which details the story of the Prophet Rumsfeld and the trials and tribulations of an oil farmer named Cheney.\n\n~X~
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Why thee Krischens angree ? Oh, I NO. Wee kant spellll.\n\nDo you read or watch the news, my friend ? Have you heard of Abu Ghraib ? Guantanamo Bay ?  Our christian president is using unfounded paranoia and fear to spread the Gospel of Hatred throughout the Muslim world. His holier-than-thou statement "If you're not with us, you're against us" had as much to do with his perverse version of christianity as it had to do with terrorism.\n\nIf I were Muslim, damn straight, I'd be angry.
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No, this has been happening since the beginning of time. Do some reading about the Chrsitian Crusades. All of that was due to Christains and Muslims fighting over the Holy Land.. Its not a state thing or a US systematic hatrid, its history
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Its not oxymoronic, its hyppocritical and ironic. I think it would be fair to say that the religion that has started the magority of the fights over religion is the Christians.  For example they marched thousands of miles to the "holy land" and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Muslums and burned infants on crosses and then claimed Jerusalem as their own private property. Take a look at all of the fighting in the Middle East between the Palistinians and the Israelies and tell me how you think that all started. IT WAS THE CHRISTIANS!
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It was an encouragement passage for those who were persecuted because of their faith in God.\n\nand no, Christians are not terrorists. People use religion to gain approval for their policial actions through out the age. \n\nI disagree with the war in Iraq. We should not kill. And although the terrorists might be Muslims, but we cannot blame the whole Muslim population. Because we know that Muslim teaches their people not to kill, to be peaceful with everyone, etc \nChristian and Muslim are actually sisters! - Both came from the same Jewish History (But Muslim's ancestor was Ishmael instead of Isaac [Arab descendants]).