Like I said. There is NO place in the New Testament that tells Christians to fight to force Gods rule on earth.
I went to Catholic schools where there was a compulsory religious education subject. The Old Testament was taught on an equal footing to the New Testament from early primary school age and events in the Bible including Genesis were all treated as things that actually happened. We were also taught the Church's (anti) views on abortion and contraception (which wasn't allowed to be taught or discussed in class). Evolution was forbidden as well and dismissed as simply "people who believe we come from monkeys"
. The religion's leadership and fundamentalist followers hold strict unwavering views about these topics, often despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Yep, nothing politically ideological about it
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You can sugar coat it all you like but I am just stating the truth about Islam ideology.
It's unlike any other major religion in its ideology in that it specifically tells Muslims to kill in the name of Allah those that don't conform to the teachings of Allah in the Koran or the Hadith.
I'm saying all religions, which obviously includes Islam and Christianity, are bogus ancient mysticism used by hardcore followers for political purposes and ultimately power and self-interest. I'm not sure how that is sugar coating things
. I'm not the one playing favourites. Their 'scriptures' are a mixture of twisted biased self-promotional versions of history, contemporary beliefs that we now know are false, and just plain ignorant rubbish made up and passed down from one generation to the next without question.
Ultimately, each religion was an attempt by our ancient ancestors in different parts of the globe to explain the world around them in primitive terms that they could comprehend including a socio-political order. We now know all these 'attempts' were flawed down to just plain incorrect in their explanations as well as abused to obtain power and to commit evil/destructive acts in practice that held humanity back. We also now know that there are perfectly rational and scientific explanations for how the universe including ourselves came to exist and for why certain behaviours are advantageous or destructive.
For instance, we don't steal because some bloke thousand of years ago went up a mountain and believed a divine being disguised as a burning bush told him not to steal or else you'll rot in hell in the afterlife. Instead, not stealing from each other allows us to leave our posessions in one place for when we return and do something else elsewhere. It's advantageous to us. It's constructive behaviour. It makes us more productive both as individuals and as a society. It advances us as a species. The same goes for not killing each other, etc. Conversely, stealing, killing, etc... is destructive beheaviour both at an individual and society level and ultimately we would regress as a species.
The great irony is political/religious conservative types love to accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being apologists who undermine Western values (see the Herald-Sun again today). Yet, it them that are undermining the very fundamental values needed for a constructive and cohesive society by basing the existence for such values on ancient imaginary supernatural fairytales, rather than teaching these values as being part of human evolution, necessary for progress, and ultimately in all our own long-term self-interest and benefit as human individuals and as a human society. Of course, we all know these political/religious conservative types push their divisive archaic dogma instead for their own self-interest and their side's political agenda. You can't separate any religion from political ideology.
