christians how can you excuse almost 2000 years of murder, rape and conquest by force?
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Your knowledge of history is selective and greatly lacking. While evil has been perpetrated in the name of Christianity, it is not the predominant characteristic of Christianity. \n\nDo you also consider torture, great environmental damage, and cannibalism qualities of a peaceful, desirable society? These were the hallmarks of the native Americans who inhabited the nation before Europeans arrived here.\n\nStudy first and write second.
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In order to get forgiveness as a christian you have to believe what you did was wrong.  You can just go willy nilly and ask to be forgiven if you're just going to do it all again in five minutes.
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Do a little work...research religion for about 5 minutes and youll find that every religion has murdered in their name. Christian religions, such as the Roman Catholics, may have murdered millions of people to quell revolts or from turning people against them.\n\nAll in the name of the most loving God.
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Christianity by far.  It has the bloodiest history.  Since the creation of Christianity they have been trying to dominate every aspect of religious life around the globe.  ANd violence has been a part of their tactic since the begining.  it cannot be denied its a fact.
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This is just one of many ideas that people can misuse.\n\nI believe that Christians are supposed to obey the laws of the land unless and until those laws contradict God's laws.  Currently there aren't any civil laws that fall under that category for me.  It's one of those hypotheticals.  This is the first case I've heard of that used that idea as a defense.\n\nI don't know enough about both sides to speak to whether he was justified or not.  The courts unfortunately, because they are so overloaded, often send children back into homes that are really still unfit.\n\nStill, based on what they showed on the segment I saw, he didn't seem justified to me.
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Allah is the EXCUSE for killing children. Christians don't want to kill all infidels. These cowardly Muslim Radicals are Using Allah. They are making it his problem. Who knows what Allah wants. Like God he remains out of touch. They use his word to back up their hatred of Jews and Christians. It is all Bull SH IT
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There is both Biblical and non Biblical evidence. Josephus was a Jewish historian of his day. Never a christian BTW. He gave an account of Jesus is his record. Biblically, David the King wrote a Psalm all about the crucifixion a method of execution not used until the Romans invented it some 500 years later. Proof there is not. If there were we would all be damned because proof makes faith of no effective and people as saved by the grace of God through faith. Without faith we die...   Jim
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It's a difficult question. Nobody realistically thinks you can ignore the winds of change and remain relevant, but at the same time too much change sheds a suspicious light on your religion. I remember I was quite young when the pope notified his flock that Christianity is changing its official stance on jewish people. "From now on we don't believe that killing is a good thing." I think if I was Christian then I would have ceased to be. How can a teaching that has been so essential to the history of a religion be retracted? Balance is necessary. Honest religious people are constantly digging deep and asking themselves which areas are in the "unassailable truths" category and which are subject to the times.
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The fact that religion, throughout our history, has mainly been used an excuse harm and abuse others. Be it Nazi's against Jews, or Islam against the western world (and vise versa) Catholics/Protestants we could go on forever. The killing, in the name of "God" (whichever your faith) never ends.
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I'm not sure where you are coming from, particularly in referene to the "details" given, but it is true that Christianity as portreyed in some of these answers does not seem too relevant to the 21st century.  Makes me wonder how representative of Christians they really are, though; perhaps it is the unusually fanatical ones that spend their time answering every question with a Bible reference, and give us all a bad case of the heebee jeebees.  Frankly, I can't see anyone converting to Christianity because someone wrote "God is angry with you" in one of these answers.  I did actually get that line in an answer once.  Imagine the arrogance to speak for God to that extent!
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Alucard,\nYou can find people who do heinous things from all backgrounds in life. As you should well know, people, once past a certain age will do whatever they decide to do. You cannot simply pick one group(Christians) and find the minority in that group then find heinous crimes and associate this minority in an extremely large group of people with those crimes. You can "make up" all the statistics you want to in order to further your point against a belief system that you  may not agree with. That doesn't make it fact, just assumption.
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How can you justify rape.  You can't.
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Take a good look at the world.  100 years ago it was a completely different earth than the one we currently occupy.  Sex and violence have replaced morality, and it's only going to get worse over time.  If I had to live without faith that the earth would be restored and that justice would prevail in the end, I wouldn't want to wake up in the morning.  My faith keeps me going in the face of adversity, and that is enough for me.
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Good point, but there are more things these slimy fools are doing in Africa.  Raping women, killing Christian women and children, burning churches, torturing kids that refuse to memorize their unholy book and more.  Want proof?  Seek it on this link then!
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One thing you might want to check out about the Wikapedia is that the answers can be edited by users, so I would recommend that if you are looking into a topic that you don't use this encyclopaedia all by itself, because as you can see from this forum, people often disagree on what is "fact". \n\nI think when it comes to the burning, torture and death sentences that had occurred there were several things to consider, as each age had different ideas of what was "wrong". Usually it all came down to the fact that they would kill or torture someone with different views then what the current accepted monarchy approved at the time. If you believed something else, or a different variation of the common belief, you were considered a "heretic" and that was believed to come from Satan, and so, Christian, Pagan, Atheist or whatever, you were "wrong" and needed to be publicly punished so that the rest of the people living around you would be afraid to change their beliefs or even question them. \n\nIn early days, people were not allowed to have their own Bibles, for fear that they would interpret them differently then others. People were told to believe what the church told them, and if you didn't then you could be jailed or killed. So although it is possible that the majority of people burned were Christians, ( because saying you were anything else could get you killed) they were people who differed in their personal beliefs from what the crown and religious leaders shoved down their throats, or were unlucky enough to make an enemy of someone who could accuse them of being a heretic even if they weren't. Claiming to be a good Christian could possibly nullify the charge, so it's not surprising  that reports say that most burned were "Christians".\n\nI've included some more links below if you would like to research this topic some more, but would recomend looking into a local library:
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I suggest that you are correct. On a simple level, just look at the serial killers of the last 30 years; almost all came from religious backgrounds, and many felt they were doing Gods work.
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Hi captain, I have got some thing for you which goes down to early history.\n\n" Charles only spared the lives of those Saracens[Muslims] who consented to be baptised, the rest he put to the sword."--[History of Charles the Great and Orlando, by Turpin, Vol-I, ch-ii, pg-5]\n\n"....460 years later, when the Holy land reverted to the Christian rule of crusading knight of Europe, the oriental Christians regretted the tolerating Govt. of the Arabian Khalifs."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....A bloody sacrifies was offered by mistaken votaries to the God of the Christian resistance might provoke, but neither sage nor sex could mollify, thier implacable rage, they indulged themselves 3 days in a promisenous massacre. After 70,000 muslims had been put to the sword and the harmless JEWS had been burned in thier Synogogue, they could still reserve a multitude of captives whom interest or lassitude persauded them to spare."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\nThe critical Gibbon coclusively proves that, "...to his Christian subjects, Mohammad readily granted security of thier persons, the freedom of thier trade, the property of thier goods and the toleration of thier worship. This profitable principle of toleration was observed with more or less strictness, not only by all the immediate successors of the Prophet, but over the whole period of Arabic ascendency."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON] \n\nOn the other hand..........\n\n"....when Jerusalem capitulated to Khalif Omer, the inhabitants of the vanquished city were left in possesion of thier worldly goods, and allowed the freedom of worship. A special quarter of the city was allotted for the residence of Christian population with thier Patriarch and his clergy."--\n[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....And Islam was tolerant not simply to the Jews but also to the Christians. The Christian church in muslim Spain was given large lands and considerable revenues, christian envoys were recieved with courtesy and allowed to take away relics of christian saints and martyrs from the muslim territory. GIBBON says in his Decline and Fall [of Roman Empire], that muslim rulers even transcribed an Arabic version of the canons of the councils of Spain for the use of BISHOPS in the Moorish kingdom. Haroon al-Rashid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights", planted in his kingdom a large number of schools, the head of these schools, his Director of Education, was a chritian named John."--[ The Spirit and Struggle of Islam by Prof. T.L.Vaswani, Ganesh & Co., Madras-1921]\n\nYou can judge it yourself as to whether muslims inflicted more violence or the Christians ? \n\nAnd you know about modern history and who is responsible for killing lacs of people in Hiroshoma and Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..