I attempt the impossible- Michel and Syed

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Jan 31, 2007 at 05:26

This one is for you, Michel, though my questions are aimed at Syed. I am going to attempt the impossible...to solicit an intelligent, well-reasoned argument from a Muslim. Namely, Syed. It is, as usual, open to any Muslim who thinks he can answer the question. Of course, I'll probably win the Lottery and get hit by lightning on the same day before one steps up to the plate.

Syed, your Biblical complaints are utterly invalid. In Christianity, the New Testament supercedes the Old Testament. That means that all the violence of the Old Testament is rendered null and void and replaced by Jesus's gospel of peace and love. "An eye for an eye" is replaced with "turn the other cheek".

So my first question for you is how do you support your Biblical claims when Christianity has declared that Jesus's peaceful New Testamant verses supercede the violent Old Testament verses? Christians do not turn to the Bible to justify violence...they use the Bible to condemn violence.

My second question and main challenge to you is to show me how WWI or WWII were "Christian" wars. Those wars were not fought in the name of Christianity, nor were they fought in order to spread Christianity. Both were political wars, the second against a secular ideology called Nazism, which ordered the mass killings of both Jews and Christians (with the help of the Muslims, of course!).

Contrast this with every war on the planet in which Islam is involved (over 90% of all wars involve Muslims as one party), where the war is a war of religion, ie Islam wants to dominate and spread its rule over everyone else. In each of these wars, the goal of Islam is to impose the religion (death cult, more accurately) of Islam on others. These wars are all fought in the name of Islam, in order to advance the cause of Islam, in order to spread the religion of Islam, and using Islam as the justification for committing atrocities. That is a religious war.

Now show me how WWI and WWII can be considered "Christian" wars.

Susan, Gellin, Dhimmi, Patriot, etc...pass the pop corn and pop a beer. This could get entertaining, if only as a study in denial of reality and the brainwashing effects of cults on the uneducated. :-)

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