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Originally Posted by Nedusa

No............I don't think so, Christianity at it's core is peaceful, loving, tolerant, forgiving religion.

It may be that 500 years ago it was hijacked for political ends to steal lands and plunder vast riches from backward native peoples.

It may also have been hijacked by a small minority who warped it to suit their own evil agenda's ie the purge against "witches" and other acts of puritannical savagery.

But at it's heart the Gospels tell a story of love and forgiveness that is the whole point of Christianity it is the only way humans can live and evolve together. Gay and Lesbian acceptance together with divorce and abortion are still big issues with the Roman Catholic/Catholic Churches but you are not condemned to death as you would be as a muslim.

Islam is very much a dark, intolerant, do as I say or face the consequences type of religion, very old testament and more suited to controlling people and forcing them to comply or else.

There is no compassion just the end of a sword and this is the mainstream Saudi Arabian or Iranian versions of the faith. Even leaving the radical extremist elements out of the argument it is still a very unpleasant cult to be forced upon children who have the unfortunate luck to be born into a Muslim family.

They are effectively trapped upon pain of death should they seek to exercise free will and decide their own fate.

It is without doubt the most ghastly organised Cult masquerading as a religion and it needs to undergo serious change if it wants to change the views of myself and Billions of people like me worldwide.

It is simply unacceptable in its present form and has no place in the civilised modern world.






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Honestly I don't feel that Christianity was ever hijacked. We like to think these days that religion was just used as an excuse for bad people to do bad things - it wasn't. Their actions were directly linked to their beliefs, they were motivated just as much by genuine religious zeal as they were for any money or land. It's hard for us to appreciate today in a time where we are pretty indifferent to religion, where for most of us it doesn't impact our lives or our decisions, but it did used to. Most of those who fought Europe's wars of religion were completely confident that God was on their side, that they were justified in massacring the other side because they had forsaken true religion. I'm not talking about oppressing backwards people or targeting a few witches, the whole of Europe tore itself apart over their differing interpretations of Christianity. Sorry if that doesn't fit the happy clappy, love thy neighbour aspect of Christianity but it's true, and where they needed biblical justification for their violence they found it, and were better acquainted with the Bible and the history of Christianity than you or I.