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Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Sure. But only one of them seems to result in a massively disproportionate level of violence. And not just violence due to a difference of religion, but violence done in the very name of the religion

Not just the one. Both old and new testament have lot of violence and mysognistic rhetoric if you read them literally. It may not seem like it today , Christianity is a bloody religion of conquest throughout most of its history, just the last 500 years had countless genocides conducted all over the world in its name. Gold , Glory and God was the theme of all colonization, before that period we had the another 500 yea…

Good points. I wonder how Catholicism did away with justifying the Crusades. Although I would add that Islam has been consistently bloody since inception.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

#223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. But only one of them seems to result in a massively disproportionate level of violence. And not just violence due to a difference of religion, but violence done in the very name of the religion

Not just the one. Both old and new testament have lot of violence and mysognistic rhetoric if you read them literally. It may not seem like it today , Christianity is a bloody religion of conquest throughout most of its history, just the last 500 years had countless genocides conducted all over the world in its name. Gold , Glory and God was the theme of all colonization, before that period we had the another 500 yea…

I have since learned that the Crusades were actually a direct response to Islamic aggression, so that comparison sort of goes out the window
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