MnSpring wrote on 11/24/15 at 17:24:56:Their are about 270, basic religions in the world.
Their are several Thousand, variations.
For this discussion, will just use two,
and the, ‘books’, they go by.
The Bible and the Quran.
In Both those books, their are references to, ‘killing’ someone for some reason or another.
In Both those books, their are MANY, contradicting statements.
YET, How, many of those, ‘Religions’, are,
STILL, Killing people, because they do NOT,
convert to, ’their’ Religion ?
I can Only think of, ONE !
Let’s see, if a ‘Fringe’ group, called themselves, ‘Knights Templars’, or ‘Crusaders’.
(Which both went out late 1200’s or early 1300’s.) 700 YEARS ago !
And, (today), BEHEADED, people, in the name of that religion.
Do you think the, ‘Christens’, (that, ‘Fringe’ group associated with),
would, DO, something about them. ?????
(Not just give, ‘LIP’ Service, but, DO, Something!)
Do you think if a, ‘fringe’, group, calling themselves the, "Avenging Angles”,
Cut OFF Peoples Heads,
The, Mormons, would, DO, something about them ?
(Of course, the, ‘oral traditions’, of the Mormon, ‘Avenging Angles’,
was that they did NOT, ‘CUT OFF HEADS’, of people that did not believe,
they only, ’Avenged’, wrong doing, among the people, who did, believe in that Religion.)
Gee, perhaps the, Muslims, who believe in Islam, need some, “Avenging Angles”. LOLOL
Some, ‘religions’, Centuries ago, did Live Human sacrifices.
They continue this practice today, BUT TODAY USE, Efficacy’s, of the human/animal/etc.
But which, ONE, is STILL, ‘Cutting Off Heads’. ?
And, (outside of, ‘LIP’, service), are ’They’, (the believers in that Religion), doing Anything ??????
[b]Do not see, ANY, evidence of it.[/b]
So, conclusions.
1. The, Muslims, who follow the, Quran, are to terrified, of their OWN, kind, to do anything about it.
or
2. You never know, ‘when', a Rattlesnake will bite.
You only know, it, ‘ WILL'.
or
3. Islam, is NOT, a, ‘Religion’.
I would like to challenge the above statements with a little history; not opinion, not hearsay but HISTORY.
The
Sovereign Military Order of Malta, officially the "
Sovereign Military Hospitallier Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta", still exists today.
Their headquarters is in Rome, a few km from my office. They survived and repelled all Turkish, Saracen and Arab attacks but could not repel Napoleon's Navy in 1798. It was then transferred to the UK in 1814, regardless International Law demanded the Knights of Malta be acknowledged their rightful possessions.
YOU ARE WRONG HERE - AGAINIRAQ is fighting ISIS - anthough the best and battle-hardened senior Officers were fired from the New Iraqi Army thanks to US influence in the Iraqi Government, so they went off to the other side - purely out of spite and for revenge.
IRAN is fighting ISIS - although the US call this an aggression into Iraqi Territory, even though Iranians and Iraqis are actually fighting side by side !
SYRIA is fighting ISIS - although it is in the US Cabinet's Book of Planned Invasions that after Iraq comes Syrian, then Iran, hence your smear campaign of Pres.Assad.
WHO, on the other hand, IS FUNDING ISIS ?
Hmmm... let's see...
Saudi Arabia is funding ISIS... and when Yemen objected to ISIS, Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen.
Kuwait is funding ISIS...
The United Arab Emirates are finding ISIS...
Bahrein is funding ISIS...
Take notice, ALL OPEC Countries which must send their tankers through the SUEZ Canal.
But Syria is NOT OPEC, so if it became an OPEC-controlled Colony...
no more SUEZ !
Oh, and... there's one more Nation funding ISIS... but I'll let Sen. John McCain explain that to you.
As for cutting off heads etc. ... look up the pliight of the Australian Aborigenes and how the CHRISTIAN Clergy would organize mass abductions of Aborigene children from their families in order to destry and annihilate Aborigene Culture and Religion.
Nobody's without sin, MnSpring. Don't even think of picking up that stone...
PS: as for "Islam is not a Religion"...Please define "Religion".
By Christian Theological standards, a Religion needs:
- a Revelation,
- a Prophet who received the Revelation,
- a Book where the Holy Words of revelation were written down,
- a Clergy which is trained and academically educated in specific Institutes,
- a Clerical Hierarchy,
- a (number of) Houses of Prayer.
By these standards, among Christians: Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans are acknowledged Confessions of a Religion;
Baptists, Evangelicals etc. are NOT a religion because they lack a clerical organization ("elders" NOT being clergy) and specific education (Theology in College is NOT Theology in a Seminar)
Islam, be it Sunni, Shi'ite or Ba'ha, are a Religion.
Shinto is a Religion.
Buddhism is NOT a Religion because the Gautama Siddhartha was NOT a Prophet, he did NOT receive a revelation but meditated his way to Nirvana (Enlightenment)
As for Mormonism - I do not know whether it qualifies as a Religion because I am not informed on its Clerical orcganization (and I will NOT pore over Wikipedia to find out, I simply do not care)
BUT MORMONISM IS CERTAINLY NOT A FORM OF CHRISTIANITY !!! 
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