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    I know it’s the fashion to focus on the warts. Still no reason to wish the West had fallen to Islam. Looking at the state of the two civilizations, I can’t be unhappy that Europe didn’t fall before the onslaught.

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    Read the Quran and the Hadith. I can assure you that you do not want to live under Sharia.

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    I managed to survive all the lies about Christopher Columbus and even drew some nice crayon drawings of Columbus landing amongst the natives in elementary school. It was a neat story even if it was fiction and the three gold plates my grandma had nailed on her living room wall commemorating the “Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria”.....sealed the deal.

    The native inhabitants seemed to have gotten a raw deal. My area is rich with the history of the French & Indian War. It seems like the major disease that kill them off was lead poisoning. There is a remnant of them that lives in western New York on a reservation. They were quite content in their native land but a reservoir project seems more important so they took their land, forced them out and flooded the valley and all their burial sites. So they get a little scuffed up sometimes when the government tries to tell them what to do on their reservation. They have been know to shut down interstates, burn tires and create unrest. But it all worked out good for me because I can get gasoline about 60 cents a gallon cheaper on the reservation as well as untaxed goods and I can gamble in their nice casinos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    I know it’s the fashion to focus on the warts. Still no reason to wish the West had fallen to Islam. Looking at the state of the two civilizations, I can’t be unhappy that Europe didn’t fall before the onslaught.
    Personally, I wouldn't care to be subject to either, though the Catholic Church has evolved faster, it seems to me, than has Islam under the Imams. Both have been brutal, historically. (I have to thank the Catholics for sponsoring the Inquisition, though, as it forced my SO's ancestors to flee to a country near me...)

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    I would argue that Islam has devolved instead of evolved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ultralight View Post
    Read the Quran and the Hadith. I can assure you that you do not want to live under Sharia.
    Nor do i want to live under the Christian version of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
    I would argue that Islam has devolved instead of evolved.
    Finally we agree on something!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
    Nor do i want to live under the Christian version of it.
    You have not read the New Testament and the Quran. Otherwise you'd see the incredible doctrinal differences. And I say this as a Hitch-style atheist who thinks religion poisons everything.

    Jesus was a do-gooding desert hippie compared to Mohamed and the texts differ startlingly.

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    I’m notoffering an endorsement of one or the other. Sinply stating that i wish all religious people would butt out of everyone else’s lives. But that’s not the way most religions work. At least not the ones that are run by successful salesmen who understand how to build a business.

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    The here’s the problem - Christian nationalists don’t follow the red letters of Jesus in the New Testament. They follow whatever verse from the entire book that supports their agenda. Hence, I fear a move toward a handmaids tale type of world if we ever become officially a Christian nation.

    Secularism is awesome,

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