Mary in LA, can’t help but notice you left Luke 19:27 off the list:
“But as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king-bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!”
I think you make my point for me. Modern Christians’, living in affluent secular society, are almost mandated to cherry-pick their Bible to make their faith compatible with modern living.
Few Christians today even know that passage (or say it doesn’t matter as it was a parable, but that just doesn’t hold water. It’s clear what J is saying from this parable and many others using similar imagery), but to a member of the Inquisition, Luke 19:27 was a mission statement.
Today’s Muslims are living in the equivalent of our Inquisitional era. With improved education and quality of life, in a few generations Muslims could be ignoring most of their Koran as effectively as Christians ignore most of their Bible, but for passages like those Mary posted.
