Or as someone who isn’t fictional once said:

Or from another dead black guy:

No one is touching my cloke.

When you move to Libya, you'll need to know the correct response to violence. Until then, you can rest easy and stick with words.

What the fuck? Jacob?


That's my contribution.

What about peace through war? A hypothetical war to end all wars, what about that?

To end all conflict, a war would have to wipe out the entire human race. I think that's probably something we want to avoid.

Probably.

Actually, now that I think about it...

Oh no. BM is thinking again.

I'm founding the Involuntary Human Extinction Movement. Come to think of it, we're all working towards that already.

I don't know what it is but it's awful and I hate it and the reaction to it and everything is terrible.

I like it. Count me in

This was my exact thought process when I saw this thread. He was the dude who did the "Should ugly people procreate" thread, right?

On topic: I've never truly understood why Muslims get so angry and zealous when someone critiques or satirises their religion. I haven't heard of any recent angry Christians do something this extreme and they get it in the neck constantly from the likes of Richard Dawkins and the like.

Yeah apart from the one who killed 77 people, mostly minors, last year.

Everything is terrible.

the Islam is a much younger religion than Christianity. also do you seriously believe that every culture and religion develops at the same speed?

It used to be better. There was a 300 year period in which Baghdad was the cultural centre of the world.

No but Islam is REALLLY taking its sweet time.

It took Christianity 2000 years to get to this point. Islam is currently at the point that Christianity was 500-1000 years ago.

Aw man, did you see the one Sandman comic about that? That shit was killer.

Basically, the crusades.

If such comparisons actually work. Sikhism is only 500-600 ears old, and it's not especially violent.

No, but I saw the mathematics. Algebra, algorithms, numerals. And the names of the stars.

Well, okay, in Sandman, they had like, advance technologies we haven't even discovered. Like flying carpets. And a form of emphasis above and beyond the brute force of italicisation. And flying carpets.

Islam used to be the bomb, now Islam is just wack.

I'm leaving this thread, because if it is not outrageously clear already, I can't comprehend how I can give a shit about this.

Christianity didn't have a modern civalization everywhere around it where they could take reference from. Not that christianity is perfect because they still live in the stone age on many fronts just the same.

If you can't see culture shock as an oppressive force then you're not even trying to understand the other side, just projecting moral absolutes on them.

Look at how badly Buddhist Japan resisted the encroaching western influence for hundreds of years. This isn't a problem isolated to Islam.

I didn't say it was. Every religion refuses to learn from other religions or cultures or even scientific discoveries because they always think they have all the right answers. Behavior like that is dangerous in any condition, not just Islam.

I didn't know it was a younger religion. I thought it was one of the really old ones like Hinduism

Islam is an extension of Christianity just like Christianity is an extension of Judaism how could you not know that

I didn't know that either. I know Christianity and Islam are basically based on the same thing though, right down to abusing little kids. Islam just made it legal.

Perhaps it never interested him. Not everyone has such an extensive and intricate understanding of all things like your own.

Islam is one of the younger faiths, Laser. Founded in 610 I think.

Okay, I was raised a Roman Catholic, so there's a bit of bias here, but I assumed it was common knowledge that Jesus was a prophet of God in the Islam faith.

Islam is refered to as an Abrahamic faith for a reason; that being that it comes from Abraham and Judaism.

I knew that and I'm totally not interested. I also thought it was a common knowledge

I knew Jesus was considered a prophet in the Islamic faith, but it never crossed my mind that Christianity was older.

But then, I don’t know much about many religions.

At least Mormons are nice. Apart from that 'blacks are unacceptable' business up til the 70's

China still has that policy.

I always thought it was weird that Jesus would be considered a prophet by Muslims. It seems really conciliatory, like okay, we'll accept that your messiah was a pretty cool guy, and a messenger of god, even though we don't think he's the son of god. I mean, when else has Islam ever been willing to bend where their faith comes in. You'd think they would be denouncing him for blasphemy.

Because Islam evolved from Christianity and not Judaism? Islam denouncing Christ would be like Christianity denouncing Moses and the Ten Commandments.

I understand that it evolved from it, but arguing that something is logical when talking about religion doesn't really answer the question. Much of religion is completely illogical, and Muslims vehemently hate anyone who puts themselves on a level with their god.

So just ignore and decanonize the scriptures where Jesus claims to be God/the son of God etc. I mean, Christianity itself does it enough.

I understand what they did. I'm just saying that I find it strange.

I DUNNO OKAY

Muslims don't believe that he said those things. I don't even know that he said those things.

A lot of Muslims don't even believe Christianity is monotheistic. 2000 years and the Trinity hasn't started making sense yet.