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such practices allowed in christianity serve to make the religion more palatable to the rich as this was the practice of the day.

Re: Why Abrahamic Religions produced more religiously motivated violence and intolera is it only through fear that humans can be controlled? even for the love of god must be out of fear?

they are the christian crusaders.... if not because because they fear sniper fire, they would have worn a big cross on their uniform as well.

most doctrines, principles, traditions, etc of christianity was written/fabricated centuries after the supposed death of jesus. one of the most influential figure was St Paul who has never met jesus and was preaching stories of jesus base on what he heard during his travels but mostly fabricated...

these words spoken by jesus & made famous by george bush jr.

fishbuff, we are not discussing the existence of god in this thread. you may start a thread to discuss it.

the violence in christianity & islam is different. islamic violence in quran is always defensive whereas chritianity violence in the bible is offensive. the violence committed in the name of islam in recent history are also defensive. i do not approve of the violence committed regardless of...

Most non muslims doesn't know that the the first christian convert to islam during the time of prophet mohammad is an african slave by the name of bilal. the early muslims paid dearly and incurred the wrath of the ruling clan in demanding for this release from slavery. and years later, when...

pastors hiding verses is nothing compared to the church hiding all those lost gospels found in nag hammadi.

a true believer must love god unconditionally without the rewards & punishments. rewards & punishments are ways to remind us that we need to love god. then this love is conditional. just like when we were schooling, our parents will say if you fail you will kena cane but if u pass with flying...

if the doctrine of the holy trinity is to be followed, then all polytheistic religions can in one master stroke can transform themselves to monotheistic by using the same explanation that actually all these gods are the manifestations of one god.

But in their defence, the christians says that father, son & holy spirit are 3 are the manifestations of god and not 3 gods. just like the kabbalah jews believe in 10 expressions of god. some may argue that in islam, god have 99 names and therefore, 99 manifestations. but the difference is in...

In my humble opinion, Buddha teaches one to attain enlightenment/nirvana within oneself. the are no gods required. for me, attaining enlightenment/nirvana is to when one sees the world beyond the duality of life. Buddha is a teacher and should be revered but why are Buddhist worshipping Buddha...

In my opinion, there are no true Islamic country in this world that follows the Islamic doctrine & system of government. On the contrary, people are still flooding into GCC countries as they continue to flourish in their oil driven economies. There is a good population of sinkies in the GCC & I...

Islam is a violent religion whose followers will slaughter you and your family in their quest to convert or kill everyone on the planet. In blessed contrast, we in the West have a gentle religion that teaches love and tolerance and wants only for the world to live in peace. Or so our handlers...