Me Ed wrote:shahmaran wrote:CBBB wrote:I agree entirely, but at least having been brought up as Christians, we are taught to use our initiative and not just follow blindly the dogma of others.
Now please explain that to me, how does
being Christian actually teach you to use initiative and not to be blind?
Sounds like a FAT oxymoron to me...
Well lets examine the fundamentals:
Muslims are forbidden to eat pork - Christians can CHOOSE whether to.
Muslims are forbidden to drink alcohol - Christians can CHOOSE whether to.
Muslims must pray 5 times a day - Christians can CHOOSE when to pray.
Muslim women must dress modestly - Christians can CHOOSE whether to.
Muslims must fast during ramadan - Christians can CHOOSE whether to fast during lent.
Muslims have to be circumcised - Christians can CHOOSE whether to.
Christianity used to be in the dark ages, but came out of this during the European period of enlightment, something that Islam seriously needs to go through.
This sounds like nothing but the "slimmed down" version of Christianity being compared to what an ignorant Christian thinks of Islam
Nothing you have listed up there is a MUST, unless you are living under Sharia law in which case it is turned into a MUST, and it still doesn't reflect individual beliefs but it reflects what some radical leaders force up on the people.
Plus the Islamic world were having their "enlightement" when you were living in the dark ages.
That is something you need to learn about.
However since the fundamentals of both ideologies are built up on silly fairy tales, let me make it perfectly clear that I think they are just as ridiculous as each other.
Just because Christians are more "aesthetic" in some way's and managed turned themselves into being the religion of the bourgeois/aristocracy around the world, does not mean they are any "better" or any less "irrational".
So without having to get into the semantics of each belief, I can easily say that both Christians and Muslims are full of shit!