You posit a very specious argument here. First off, you're incorrect, the Torah is just as violent as the Quran, despite your opinion to the contrary. There are many verses and not only Exodus which you allude to as specifically referring to a time, place and enemy. The Torah is repleat with commands from God to rape, stone and other acts of violence on quite a few opponents. Furthermore, much is lost in translation, making this debate quite obfuscating.
You are creating strawmen, these are not my arguments. My point is not which religion is
historically more violent, my point is which is
currently more violent. The Torah may have contain much more overall violence, but it's over save for the peoples encroaching on ''their" holy land of Israel. I am an athiest and I think all three abrahamic religions are net negative forces, I harbor no love for any of them...
So let's address the thesis of your argument. You're saying that Islam is more violent than the other two major Abrahamic religions because of God's commands to commit violence.
Almost. I'm saying that Islam is
currently more violent than the other abrahamic religions because of god's commands to commit
ongoing violence...
In the same argument you admit that the Christian people have the far more violent history but excuse them on the basis that they did so of their own volition and not because God commanded it.
No. I am not excusing christian violence. I am saying that the violence they committed was done on their own volition as there are no commands from god/jesus to do so...
Then to top it off, you claim yourself to be arguing from authority "years of studying the Quran" and Panhead because of 4 decades of marriage to a Palestinian.
Not arguing from authority, but experience. I was engaged to the Palestinian girl, I don't know the nationality of
@panhead 's wife...
You have no clue what you're talking about.
You claim this, but you have not demonstrated that anything I've stated is erroneous...
This is evident in your poor argument. Panhead said in another thread his wife was Filipina. I on the other hand have served several combat tours with the airborne infantry in both Iraq and Afghanistan and I speak Arabic. I have endured years of indoctrination into your very fallacies and overcome it.
You have shown that you have not understood my argument, and certainly haven't demonstrated why it is poor. I see that you are also arguing from experience, have you studied the Quran and Hadiths?
Don't even mention mistreatment of muslim women, there is nothing the West has done to improve their lives.
I think it is important to address Islam's mistreatment of women, and it seems germane to this thread's topic. The subject of the thread is not what the US has done to alleviate muslim suffering, so that aspect is non sequitur...
I defer to my first post in this thread to assert my views.
Cool...