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I think the point is that Jesus and the Bible do not teach violence. Later church fathers/thinkers came up with that thinking after the Church got in bed with politics and power.
We all know...well except 2minkey...that war, violence subjugation is part and parcel of Islam.
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For the TLDR crowd: Violence is not a Christian doctrine. Violence perpetrated in the name of Christianity is heretical, no excuse or justification for it.
Uh...Just War doctrine has been around for about forever, and is both Christian and details the proper means for dispensing violence.
All sorts of Christian thinkers from Augustine to Aquinas to Pope John Paul II have discussed the proper restraints in wartime. The first limitations on violence in warfare were innovations of the Catholic Church.
Now, the distinction to be raised was one raised in the wake of the 30 Years War, where violence in its own name became its own self-reinforcing dynamic.
So, to be a Bohr_Adam or 2minkey and play the "all is equal" game is at best lazy thinking.
I think the point is that Jesus and the Bible do not teach violence. Later church fathers/thinkers came up with that thinking after the Church got in bed with politics and power.
We all know...well except 2minkey...that war, violence subjugation is part and parcel of Islam.
Exactly.
We’re required by leftist these days to make a clear distinction between “real” muslims and “not real” muslims who carry out terrorist attacks, yet the Left, and many here in this thread, have no problem blaming every Christian everywhere for acts carried out by one sect of Christianity, even though those teachings a clearly not a part of Jesus’ teachings, New Testament doctrine, or a part of many other Christian sects. All the while the opposite is true of islam, as violence is clearly, and very much a part of the koran and other teachings such as the hadith.