The religion of peace. Peace through killing. Maybe they meant piece.
Devils advocate here.
What was the traditions and life style of civilizations 15 hundred years ago, culture and life style then is incomprehensible to us today. What is evil to us today was just normal life style and survival a thousand years ago.
YET, hard as it is to believe some society's still today follow the life style from the far past to the last 2-3 hundred years.
We still have the far out Conservative Jews that still today believe in stoning woman that flaunting themselves, very old and not so different rules from the Muslim Koran where Mohammad may have gotten his ideas from. Some sects demand a wife to shave their heads to become unattractive to other men. The woman wear wigs in public.
Sad to say Mohammad got most of his ideas from our Old and New Testament as it was at the time.
Is the Koran so far from the outlaw Mormons with their multiple wives, sexual marriages to 12 year old girls, the old men booting out young males that may become a challenge for them over the preteen wives ??? All adult woman must dress alike, even down to hair styles, are these woman modern day concubines, only the first legal wife has rights, all others are spiritual wives. Their children are not their own, they have no say in their lives, unless they tow the line a child can be taken from its mother and raised by another wife more fitting.
Some Churches, Christian teach a woman is to be subservient to their husbands, if there is no husband due to death or non marriage they must subjugate them selves to either an elder male in the family or if none then to an elder male in the church. Not that far from the Koran in teaching subservience to their woman.
The Male is on top of the family, matters not that he may be mentally ill, a pervert, a total creep, a woman marries them by choice or arranged marriage, has no choice but to defer to what ever he wishes including rape of her children or death to them that in some way displeases him.
So today it is not JUST the Koran that incites people to kill non believers, Old Testament has books and books of God ordering the death of intire city's of people that worship another God.--------In one astounding piece God ordered the death to not only the people but to their animals and a scorched earth on their crops.
Allah is a jealous God, but one that is willing to debate with Jehovah over the out come of Job and what kind of horror they could conflict on him and his family. Interesting story, I have yet to find any kind of good coming from that for the innocents that died.
Both the Koran and both Testaments of the Bible are rules to live by according to the time and place they were written----
There is much to be learned about human nature in their time, much good to carry on into the future, to label either Evil in our time is to be expected, however at the time they were written, this was the way of life for people, how they lived and died.
I would imagine had these ancients seen our abortion factory's in their life time would have labled the future Evil as well.
God did not die or desert us 2,000 years ago, nor is he sleeping as man evolved from that time to the present, we have the Prophets from thousands of years ago, strange and in another time understandable today we debate on the incites they were given back then.
We cannot nor do we continue to live in that time, we must move on and find God on our own, the written works are but a guide for the past when they were written, to have Faith is to move on and to take the lessons learned into the future, not to live by the times and morals they were written it.
