Do you think those who instigated the Crusades and these terrorist attacks are truly religious? Did you stop to think they are the one's using religion, not religion using them. We were exploiting people even before the idea of a religion came along, so I'm far more inclined to believe were to blame then using religion as a scapegoat. Athiest's believe religion come's from man, so man's to blame not religion.
As I said previously, if Henry VIII can change a religion to suit his sexual desires, what do you think a group of elitist dictator's are able to do? I can argue it isn't Christian's at all, becuase they don't follow Christianity truly, anyone who's studied the Bible in depth realises this. Meaning has been lost in translation as well as entire Gospels such as Gospel of St.Barnabas isn't even included.
There are a billion Christians as there are Muslims, to say a mere 1% are evil would equate to 10 million, are you seriously suggesting there are 10 million evil Christian's/Muslim's out there? Or even 10%, which equals 100 million, that's more troops then WWI & WWII put together.
If you think the Pope is a Christian, you clearly do not know Christianity, these people used religion to suit there own desires, just as we have been doing since the beginning of time. We only need to look at the vast wealth of the Vatican Church to realise it has absolutely nothing to do with true Christianity, how can you wear gold robes whilst there are people starving?
This is exactly what infuriates people, but understand, these people whilst they may claim to be religious are anything but, they know people are gullible, they know people want to belong and they prey upon this weakness whilst we at the bottom fight amongst ourselves, it's ingenious and horrific, then again, you don't think of 'evil people' as manipulative interlectuals.
I understand your hatred again'st religion, but understand, this is not what religion stands for, these people twist it to suit there own desires, I was on the God channel the other day and I couldn't believe my eyes (excuse the pun) 'The Lord is not ashamed to ask you for charity,' who the hell is this false christian preacher telling us to give money otherwise the lord won't bless us, he is a fake and Jesus (P.B.U.H.) said to be aware of False prophets, and as we see today, they are rampant amongst our society, no wonder people hate religion. Another quote was 'Fire in the name of the Lord' and then these people faint, listen to what he's saying, 'FIRE in the name of the Lord,' he is being satanic without peopl even realising it. Indeed, you reach enlightenment by being set aflame by the lord...please see these people are false and preying on gullible ignorant people to suit themselves, speaking of his suit, the false christia preacher, he was wearing an obviously tailored suit with a golden embroided symbol, he also had his hair dyed or it was a wig. I can take a split second look and tell this is a false *** using religion to further his owns gain.
If you look at the true message of Christianity before it was corrupted your view of Christianity would change dramatically, also your view concerning politics, science and economics, this is no simple subject and requires a vast amount of research.
"If an army of people representing YOU committed mass murder, you can't just say they're "extremists" and this has nothing to do with you. If you can't deal with the problem and if the leaders of your group aren't ready to expel and condemn the sinners, shouldn't you quit them, out of shame? How is it any different in a religious context? "
Then every army that has ever existed would be disbanded before any great battle took place. If you learn anything in war, it's shockingly horrific and unspeakable, by your logic, the American army should disband in Iraq and Afganistan becuase of an extreme minority of troops who show little regard for human dignity, through raping women, stealing there possesions and killing innocents. Not to mention Vietnam, WW1 & WW2, there are numerous accounts of soldiers who have become mentally unstable and commited unspeakable crimes.
Statistically speaking, are you suggesting 1% of Christian's or Muslim's are evil, like I said, that's 10 million people you are judging. If you have a family of 100, and 1 person commits a crime, does that make you all guilty, that you should be rid of the family name becuase it has been tarnished?
If there is anything I have learnt, you get good and bad people everywhere and to judge an entire religion/s which equals easily over 2 billion people, not to mention Judaism, is rather presumptious. Before you question my sources, there are roughly 1 - 1.8 Billion muslims in the world, that is according to varyious studies from various newspapers etc, however they all agree there is definetly a population of over 1 billion.
I understand your hatred again'st religion, but understand there are those who wouldn't consider them religious and a traitor to there faith. We both know what is right and wrong, we would welcome Martin Luther King (R.I.P.) with open arms into our house, however I'd slam the door shut if the Pope turned up. Anyhow, that's enough blah for now.