Tuesday 18 September 2018

The Problem With Islam


Got a name for the bike that I think is apt - Old Yeller. This was sparked off by a suggestion of Rebel Yellow by a reader called Boromax, but I thought that a bit too Confederate. Old Yeller just flashed into my tiny brain.

Question: do Christians have a greater issue with Muslims than atheists?


I would contend they do - not only do they have a problem with Islamic fundamentalists, but they also have a problem with Islam in general. They don't seem to make any distinction between the two.

Atheists, on the other hand, only have an issue with the fundamentalists. Providing Muslims go about their business without harming anyone, they're no more annoying to atheists than anyone else, including Christians.

It may only be apocryphal, but I've heard more vehement condemnation of Muslims in general from friends who profess to be Christians than from atheist friends. The more fundamentalist the Christian (which usually means hypocritical), the more condemnation is forthcoming. It's almost a competition to see who is the more holy.

Perhaps I should add a rider to that; I have some very genuine Christian friends, but they don't appear to condemn anyone. Perhaps that's why I consider them genuine Christians - they practice what they preach, or rather what Jesus preached. Possibly it's the faux Christians who are the loudest condemners. 


5 comments:

Vaughan said...

I find you have answered your own question by the need to specify Islam and no other religion! Islam tends to demand tolerance and understanding by all others whereas the very nature of its teachings negates returning any! It was handed down by an illiterate child molester and is propagated by equally uneducated imams and there own twisted version and probably child abuse only equalled in number by the Catholic church!

Chairman Bill said...

Are you, perchance, a Christian?

Chairman Bill said...

Was he a child molester? That's the popular trope, but most of the aristocracy in England married children for the purposes of money and alliances.

Vaughan said...

Buddhist, Christian , Hari Krishna actually and occasional animist! Child marriage is endemic within the Muslim world, and has manifested itself in the UK as shown in the amount of sex abuse rings, of mainly Muslim men being exposed! They cannot even agree on who practices the correct form of Islam, Sunni Shia or Sufi...bit like the diaspora if Christian denominations, but luckily they don't run around beheading each other!

Chairman Bill said...

But if you're not careful, they'll serve you warm sherry.