• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    They’re not equally shit that’s some reddit tier bullshit and a massive downplaying of the actual genocides Christianity is responsible for (including the Nazis, very few people know the Nazis were an explicitly Christian regime) committing. Meanwhile Muslims have been responsible for building the foundation for basically all of modern society and even the most extreme among them stick to defending themselves from the genocides Christian nations have subjected them to.

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      8 months ago

      Well, yes and no. Yes, during the Islamic Golden Age they successfully introduced a lot of valuable knowledge. There’s a reason our numbers are called “Arabic” and most of the stars we can see have Arabic names. However, the idea that they’ve been strictly defensive is not accurate. After the fall of the Golden Age, when clerics took back their power and declared mathematics to be satanic they began their campaign to establish a global caliphate. They’re brutal with anyone they consider sexually deviant or violate gender norms, and they’re not above attempting to invade a neighbor if they think they can get away with it in the name of Allah.

      Just like Christianity throughout history.

      The difference is that they have a lot of catching up to do before they can equal the atrocities of Christianity. And from the look of it, this lag isn’t from lack of trying. They just haven’t had as much time as Christians to commit all of the atrocities.

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          8 months ago

          I don’t see how they aren’t both rotten at the core. They both spring from the same Abrahamic religion. They both cite extremely fallible and frequently inaccurate texts as scriptures. They both cherry-pick what they want from scripture and knowledge. Neither is better than the other. The only reason that Christianity isn’t just as violent as Islam today is because most of the Christian world is leashed by secularism, which the Islamic world rejected a thousand years ago.