Originally posted by jetb123
Don't know if I read wrong, but I believe in christianity, and how I was taught is, Christ was the son of god.
I don't know if I read wrong, but the basic philosophy for both religions is generally the same regardless, meaning that they beleive in the same PHILOSOPHICAL principles.
I am not a Muslim or Christian in the orthodox meaning of those words. And those that preach violence are not either, weather they choose to call themselves Muslims or Christians.
What I am trying to say is that the religion of Muslam is not much different from Christianity, so what we are dealing with when it comes to violent groups are fanatics, and the fanatic personality type can justify doing anything, regardless of their religion, even if it goes completely against the grain of that religions underlying philosophy.
Throughout history and even now, there are fanatics everywhere in every religion, but I would not let their actions cloud my judgement of that religion. from what I have seen, most of these fanactics have not bothered to study or comprehened the basic teachings of their own religion.