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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Millions have been killed in the name of my God. Most without the approval of God or sanction of scriptures. Certainly there is no mandate for Christians to kill in the name of God.
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You are going to need to elaborate on the bolded section for me. As I understand the accounts of
herem warfare from the Old Testament in their actual cultural and historical context, the mandate to completely obliterate every living thing in the Canaanite city-states was indeed issued by God, and championed by the Torah.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
That doesn't change the inappropriateness of raising a temple unto Allah in the ashes of the 3000 lives that were killed in Allah's name and in accordance with his scriptures.
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Much like your insistence that there is no Christian mandate for Christian's to kill in God's name, I suspect that such opinions as they are derived from the Quran are a matter of interpretation. As usual, you seem to be of the opinion that the Muslim scriptures are just like the Jewish and Christian scriptures, and that their meaning and correct application is a straightforward, simple and plain matter. I know there are Muslim posters on this board, and I would be very interested to hear their take on your generalization. I suspect that they would take issue with this characterization.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There are Arab Muslims who are still distrustful of christians because of the crusades which happened centuries ago. We are talking about something that happened 10 years ago.
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Are you attempting to draw an analogy between the reaction of the population in a secular nation with that in an Arab theocracy? Do you really think that these responses are comparable?