Another hypocrite who does not know his history

Submitted by Jason (United States), Mar 16, 2006 at 13:52

andy sleator said:
"As a person with a protestant background I am afraid I can only see one kind of muslem."

I find it ironic, and quite disgusting, that a fellow Protestant would spit out such vitriol and hatred. Andy, do you know anything about how our version of Christianity came about? Do you know anything about how badly the Church misused the Bible to advance its barbaric control over Europe? Do you know anything about how absolute was the Church's control over the lives of Europeans before the Reformation? Or how brutally non-Christians were treated?

Islam today is no worse than the Catholic Church was before the Reformation. Chritianity, including the Catholic Church, changed. Someday, so will Islam.

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