by supporttheunderdog » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:26 am
I don't have much truck with Christianity either. I am definitely a heretic when it comes to how god is portrayed along with Jesus etc., if indeed there is a god. Christianity has been as guilty of the murder of innocents as eg Islam.
Anyway look at the early history of Islam and how it spread by violence and the current manifestations where Sunnis and Shiites are killing a lot more fellow Moslems than eg the US. Yes "the west" has killed Molems but not millions in deliberate mass murder and in places like Serbia the murders were more about politics than faith, as it so often is. That underlies the Sunni shiite split. Control.
Anyone who commits an act of violence in the name of a god is definitely worshipping a false god.
Indeed most organised Religions are simply a method of mind control, in particular when it interacts with politics and the alleged links to deities of leaders, who claim descent from the gods, as was the case in eg Japan, or if one looks at Greek Myths, or who claim divine rights of some sort as a spokesman for A god, eg the pope, the ayatollahs, some monarchies, etc.