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August 4, 2008 - 4:43 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Bob Murphy
2008-08-05 20:45:25

I wouldn’t go back too far with Christianity,Fred.
what’s the biggest difference between Christianity and Islam?
’bout 500 years.
It was not that far back that people regarded the Bible as the undisputed word of God and burned people at the stake if they had a different take.
When it actually was, as with the Koran, the work of religious bureaucrats with their own spin on things.
And it was in my own youth that I was told I would go to everlasting damnation if I ate meat on Friday.
Perhaps the main moral difference between Christianity and Islam is reason/volition and its nominal importance in Christianity and total irrelevance in Islam.
As in that rather interesting dialogue between the Eastern Roman Emperor and the “Learned Persian” spoken about by the current Pope that cause so many Muslims to riot. Again.