T4R. You can't. I feel it's time some of the ignorant haters learn what Christianity is actually about because I'm absolutely sick of reading false accusation after false accusation pertaining to Christianity.
ATTENTION:
THE CRUSADES IS NOT A VALID ARGUMENT.
Christianity as a religion does not condone murder or even killing in the name of Christianity. The decision to fight was made by the pope. The pope OBVIOUSLY does not control the religion. To be a Christian, you must follow Jesus Christs' word. Jesus never condoned killing. Therefore the pope went against his own religion in ordering a war. The pope does not have more say than Jesus. The pope does not control the religion. He is was nothing more than a man in power and a hypocrite. You can not blame a religion for being evil when individual people who can do whatever they want do something bad and affiliate themselves with the religion.
I mean If you're going to do that then:
A guy who lives to eat fried chicken kills someone. So people who eat fried chicken are evil!
It's stupid.
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As I hear thousands of good Christian American's call for the death of all middle easterners, I'll think of this is laugh.
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The crusades.
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God hates you all equally, that's why he abandoned this place. He's off somewhere else creating more likenesses of himself to hate.
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Matthew 10:34 http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm
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My friend had a similar argument. Said that Christianity is like pure water in a rusty bucket(representing human tendency for sin/immorality /war, etc). I told him I still wouldn't drink that water then, regardless of how pure it originally is supposed to be. I don't think he ever found a good response lol. Christianity might be peaceful in principle, but the human factor tends to ruin it.
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Germany ww2, kkk hated blacks and used God as a excuse to. I don't see the God emperor of mankind flooding the entire planet, And putting his son up for sacrifice.
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Dude that crusades explanation was SPOT ON! +1 for you
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You're completely correct[spoiler]coming from an atheist[/spoiler]
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Edited by Lennhart of Bant: 3/23/2015 4:06:12 AMOink [spoiler]Satan is lord[/spoiler]
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The crusades is more than a valid arguement. It's a great one at that. Christianity itself is a [b]war[/b] against heaven and hell. If you dont apease the heavens you burn for all eternity down in hell. That sounds [i]sooo[/i] peaceful. The only peaceful religion/philosophy is Buddhism.
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Christianity AS A RELIGION is peaceful, but only individuals are violent.
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Religion can be peaceful but that doesn't guarantee people are
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You people have to stop
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The pope does control your religion more than any other being in existence. Ergo the crusades are a valid argument to prove Christianity is as cold and blood thirsty as the next religion.
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Conquistadors, the English in Australia, WWII. To name a few
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Catholics are the d-bags that give Christianity a bad name and the south, but i guess it happens
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[quote] THE CRUSADES IS NOT A VALID ARGUMENT. .[/quote] OK how about the reformation then? Christians committed horrible acts of violence against other Christians. Not arguing its people can't be peaceful, but its history sure is not.
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The Christian dogma, I.e. The power-hungry nature of the church, achieved through violence and aggressive politics.
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David The Grey
Fight me - old
Christianity, just like Islam and literally every other religion, had extremists that make the entire religion look like shit. And makes people like me turn into Atheists. -
from 1 Samuel 15:3: "This is what the Lord Almighty says ... 'Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' " There are many more
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-blam!-
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Priests touching kids inappropriately.
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Ok Christianity is a religion of peace, so athiest are peaceful too glad we can clear that up. :) <3
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There should be no argument it's true
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Westboro.