A Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn'tChristianity or Islam: which is the real "religion of peace"? Almost any liberal pundit will tell you that there's a religion bent on destroying our Constitution, stripping us of our liberties, and imposing religious rule on the U.S. And that religion is . . .Christianity! About Islam, however, the Left is silent--except to claim a moral equivalence between the two: if Islam has terrorists today, that's nothing compared to the Crusades, inquisitions, and religious wars in Christianity's past. But is this true? Are conservative Christians really more of a threat to free societies than Islamic jihadists? Is the Bible really "just as violent" as the Qur'an? Is Christianity's history really as bloodstained as Islam's? In Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer not only refutes such charges, but also explains why Americans and Europeans must regain an appreciation of our Christian heritage if we ever hope to defeat Islamic supremacism. |
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... Iraq and Afghanistan as “Crusaders.” Al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who most frequently issues the group's communiqués, uses this term frequently; in an October 2006 message he issued a rather typical exhortation: “I ...
... Iraq and Afghanistan as “Crusaders.” Al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who most frequently issues the group's communiqués, uses this term frequently; in an October 2006 message he issued a rather typical exhortation: “I ...
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... Iraq, and diplomatic pressure against Iran. Yet others, particularly on the left, continue to believe that the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were engineered by the U.S. government so that it could invade ...
... Iraq, and diplomatic pressure against Iran. Yet others, particularly on the left, continue to believe that the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were engineered by the U.S. government so that it could invade ...
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... Iraq. In this view, George W. Bush's one-time use of “Crusade” in September 2001 to describe what came to be known as the War on Terror was not a manifestation of his ignorance of both the history of the Crusades and the sensitivity ...
... Iraq. In this view, George W. Bush's one-time use of “Crusade” in September 2001 to describe what came to be known as the War on Terror was not a manifestation of his ignorance of both the history of the Crusades and the sensitivity ...
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... Iraq and Afghanistan were not a response to September 11. They were the necessary preludes to missionary efforts: the U.S. would bring the Muslims liberty and democracy, and—under the table—Christianity as well. As for jihadist activity ...
... Iraq and Afghanistan were not a response to September 11. They were the necessary preludes to missionary efforts: the U.S. would bring the Muslims liberty and democracy, and—under the table—Christianity as well. As for jihadist activity ...
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Page 179 - In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Page 94 - You say your husband is a religious man ; tell him, when you meet him, that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but that, in my opinion, the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government because, as they think, that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven.
Page 189 - Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women).
Page 62 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 62 - So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings : he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
Page 111 - For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea; for you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, " who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men 16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved — so as always to fill up the measure of their sins.
Page 120 - True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ (John 19:6), still, what happened in his passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.
Page 73 - ... from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God.
Page 71 - Say: O disbelievers! I worship not that which ye worship; Nor worship ye that which I worship. And I shall not worship that which ye worship. Nor will ye worship that which I worship. Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion