08-18-2021, 06:38 PM
(08-18-2021, 06:26 PM)jj22 Wrote: Well to be fair when the Republican highlighted that even the Taliban was against abortion it garnered millions of likes and applause. I think the "religious" right are far more like Islamic law then people want to think. They believe a women's place is in the kitchen (damn those feminist!), with the kids and believe the wife are obedient to the husband. Evangelicals do consider America Babylon as do many Muslim nations. The similarities are far more prevalent then people want to believe.
The difference is many Christians go by the new testament, where as Islam is more like the old testament. But the old testament and sharia law is fairly similar.
I think this is a gross oversimplification. As I already stated, you'd be very hard pressed to find thousands of such Christians in any nation, while you can easily find several million such Islamists in Afghanistan alone. Even if your claims about evangelicals were 100% true, which I don't believe is the case, the examples you cite absolutely pale in comparison to the atrocities committed on a daily basis by the Taliban, Isis and their ilk.
(08-18-2021, 06:28 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Methinks the fact that we live in a pretty comfortable country keeps people from being too over the top with their religion. Christians were a lot more hardcore about Christianity when they were stuck in the desert, too.
Eh, if you went back several hundred years I'd have many of the same complaints about Christianity that I do about Islam. That's just no longer the case. There are multiple reasons for it, and certainly living in a country with a Constitution such as ours (written by Christians, btw), is one of them. But it's not close to the only factor. I think a secular government, one of the cornerstones of our system, is a far bigger factor.
