[piasa]

Starting to feel like all those American Indians, who upon looking at the advancing hordes of Englishmen, Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Germans in the northeast, the Frenchmen and Spaniards in the south, the Russians in the northwest, and asked eachother "I thought the chief said that Christianity was a religion of peace?"

[Lent]

Starting to feel like all those American Indians, who upon looking at the advancing hordes of Englishmen, Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Germans in the northeast, the Frenchmen and Spaniards in the south, the Russians in the northwest, and asked eachother "I thought the chief said that Christianity was a religion of peace?"

Colonization is not Jihad. Simple enough for you?

[livius]

Ah, piasa, have you been drinking deep at the Bill Clinton fount of wisdom?

The only people killed in the preaching of Christianity were the Christians themselves - missionaries died terrible deaths at the hands of the Indians all over the US and Canada. The colonization of the Americas was not undertaken to spread Christianity, but to spread Europeans. The two words are not necessarily identical in meaning, alas.

[JoeSchem]

Starting to feel like all those American Indians, who upon looking at the advancing hordes of Englishmen, Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Germans in the northeast, the Frenchmen and Spaniards in the south, the Russians in the northwest, and asked eachother "I thought the chief said that Christianity was a religion of peace?"

The difference is that Christianity teaches things like, "Thou shalt not kill," and "Turn the other cheek," and "Love your neighbor as yourself" -- and asking who your neighbor is gets you a parable about the Good Samaritan.

In contrast, Islam preaches jihad.

It's unfortunate that people who call themselves Christian do not follow the words of Jesus. It's unfortunate that people who call themselves Muslim do follow the words of Mohammed.

The world would be a better place if Christians learned to be more sincere and Muslims learned to be more hypocritical.

[Republic of Texas]

Although many will disagree with your comment, for many reasons, most of which I concur with, as a fan of the zinger, that was good.