Is Islam Evil?

Does this make sense, the Pope says that the muslim faith is evil, so in response in order to prove he is wrong muslims kill an unarmed nun (like thier whould ever be an armed nun, lol) and begin firing on churches. That isn't doing a very good job to prove they are good.

Now please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that all muslims are evil, I know that the majority of muslims are not, all I am saying is that the ones who are killing Christians and shooting up church buildings are idiots. I mean how logical is this, some guy in pakistan, or wherever he was, hears the pope say that the spreading of islam is evil, and in response he says " No it isn't, and prove it I am going to go murder a nun!" They are ruining the reputation of the rest of the muslims who do not share that same sense of hate towards christians.

Radical christains are just as bad.

Radical anything is bad.

mbro wrote: Radical christains are just as bad. Radical anything is bad.

True.

IMO, every type of religion merely prays on peoples fears of a power or state that is much greater than they are.

Radical Islam preys on peoples fear of death just as much as Christiantity preys on people's fear of going to hell.

Edited by XenoSabre - 18 September 2006 at 11:32am

Christianity doesn't need terrorism. People are converted to christianity because of one of two reasons...

1. They truely believe
2. They are afraid of eternal damnation

If somone says they have converted because they are afraid of God, then they havn't truly converted. Jesus doesn't want us to be in cowaring fear of him, he wants to build a relationship with us, we are to fear God but out of respect not true fear. If we are truly affraid of him then we can't have a relationship with him. We have a saying, Religeon is Dead, Jesus Lives! People don't convert because they are affraid of going to hell, but because they love God. For we know that through Jesus, hell has no power over those who believe.

MT, I'd reccommend refreshing yourself with the conflicts in Ireland, in particular the 'troubles'. Much catholic vs protestant violence and terrorism. Witness atrocities committed between Christian Croats and Muslim Serbs in the 1990s. I know men who fought in the Medak Pocket in Croatia and killed Croatian soldiers who were massacring Serbian civilians- it was a war fought in great part over religious-based cultural differences. 'Ethnic cleansing' is a lovely term, isn't it? Sounds much nicer than 'genocide'.

There are Chrsitian terrorist groups waging battles in India. In 2004 they killed 44 Hindus.

The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda is a Christian nationalist element with strong terrorist cells.




Don't make claims without research.

Jim Jones.

Purple Koolaid anyone?

People are evil, and violent, not ideas. Sociology proffesor stated in class that people are not born violent. My question to her was, Do you have kids? she stated no, so I then stated you will not under stand then. I used a time tested example of humans as violent. Take 2 children under 5 months old, no language skills, no preconcieved ideas of good and evil, and then place them in an empty playpen. Place on brightly colored ball in center, and stand back, and convince me, man is not born violent, as the first battle for possetion begins.

Radical Islam has hijacked a religion for thier needs, and the Islamic faith is a lot more of a communial lot than the fragemented faiths of christianity, so more will grow to follow a Islamic belief in the mob mentality than to follow a western religious belief.

Edited by oldsoldier - 18 September 2006 at 12:47pm

oldsoldier wrote: People are evil, and violent, not ideas.

Agree.  I don't think it makes sense to declare a particular religion "evil" or "not evil".

The Popes comments are just another reason I refuse to attend the catholic church anymore and no the muslim religion is not evil. I actually agree with what I know of the Kyrin (sp).