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Didn’t Jesus preach nonviolence and “loving one’s enemies”? The anti-Muslim ideologues use this idea to assault the religion of Islam with. For example, the Catholic apologist Robert Spencer compares Islam to Christianity by juxtaposing carefully selected quotes from Jesus to Islamic texts. In his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), Spencer includes a “Muhammad vs Jesus” section. He cites the following sayings of Jesus in the Bible:
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
“If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also”
“Blessed are the peacemakers”
“Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy”
“But love your enemies, and do good”These “peaceful” verses of the Bible are compared to select violent-sounding Quranic verses. The violent verses of the Bible “don’t count” and are craftily excluded from the comparison (“that’s just the Old Testament!”). To tighten the noose, peaceful verses of the Quran are also excluded from the heavily biased analysis: these “don’t count” since they are supposedly from when Muhammad was still in Mecca.
Jihad Jesus~ He Loves His Enemies...and Then Kills Them All | loonwatch.com
Seeded on Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:52 PM EST
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This seed doesn't represent my views entirely. It's from a far left web site, that defends the absurdities of one religion by pointing out the absurdities of another. This approach is as hypocritical as it can be, but quite popular among liberals, and on Newsvine. Quick to criticise The Westboro Baptist Church, then, without thinking, defend all practices of Islam. Cheer leading the principal of "Let's tolerate all religious violence, and not say a word." Sam Harris said it best:
Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed
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