“Christians are dangerous when they do not follow their religion, Muslims are dangerous when they do.”
This is the crux of the argument.
As an agnostic, I find the Beautitudes (“Blessed are the peacemakers…”) superior to the violent Koranic injunctions (to “strike at their necks…”, et al) and the Koran’s/Mohammad’s misogyny, intolerance of polytheists and pagans -and all other “unbelievers”, its call to dominate the world, and for all “infidel” people to convert, pay protection money and live as serfs, or die.
Islam is an expansionistic, imperialistic theocratic tyranny.
Christianity has succumbed to the same kinds of brutal, human-all-too-human temptations to power and cruel follies in its history as are enshrined in orthodox Islam’s dogmas, by they are not inherent in the New Testament texts.
Islam is a warlord’s marching orders to subjugate the world with a “God” as their greatest weapon.
Christianity is a Prince of Peace’s message to forgive and love.
The divinity of either messenger is immaterial to me.
The message is.
Mohammad’s is a call to carnage.
Christ’s, to compassion.
I’ll take Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Epictetus or Angelus Silesius over Mohammad.
And am fighting for my choice.
Because Islam leaves me no other.
