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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I'm saying that you're falling into the trap of believing that recent history (a matter of a handful of generations) represents some great world truth.

Christians were killing people for not adhering to Christianity a few hundred years ago, Christians killing in the name of Christianity is historically just as precedented and normal as Muslims doing so, and you're being extremely naive if you think Christianity is "past that now" and can't slide backwards. It not only can, it demonstrably is doing so.

[edited to add] This is not a defense of killing in the name of Islam, just a kind reminder that there are no "goodies and baddies" when it comes to world religions, especially the Abrahamic ones. They're all absolutely swimming in blood. A handful of generations of [relatively, not entirely] peaceful Christianity doesn't suddenly negate thousands of years of violence, and again (vitally) doesn't mean there aren't still violent elements within Christianity. Growing elements. We ignore them at our peril.

We have for the most part moved on as a civilisation. We understand that it's just chaos if we all go around murdering when someone holds a different opinion. It may be that we will revert as humans to previous behaviours but i hope not. I think that in just about every aspect of life we are on a pendulum and what we are seeing at the moment, in the "civilised" world is the pendulum self correcting because its gone too far in terms of group think. I don't however, think that we will regress as a society that goes around murdering people (to any significant extent) because we differ in opinion