You have a bad habit of holding the whole of religion responsible for those that abuse the power religion has. Part of your anti-theology includes presenting 'historical facts' in shade of religion when most of the atrocities you've earmarked for religion has little if anything to do with it.
Did Betrayal not have followers and supporters that look forward to his ravings? Did Betrayal not follow the rules and attend Church on Sunday just like everyone else? Betrayal is just another fellow citizen who means no harm to the land of mafia. Hibiki, my friend, you are just a scam created by the government to distract everyone from the real emerging threat. Ban Hibiki.
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Did Bin Laden not have brothers and sisters that he cared for? Did Bin Laden not go to Church every Sunday to worship his sacred God. Bin Laden was merely a scam created by his government to distract everyone from the real emerging threat, Isis.
Do suicide bombers not have feelings too? Do suicide bombers go to Church on Sunday the day before the bombing to pray to God Almighty for a good seat in heaven? Suicide bombers are merely being scammed by their government to perform a sacred deed at the cost of their own life.
It's bursting at the seams with hypocrisy and bad morality and it has a long history of military activity, even if most of those activities weren't overt "holy wars."
Did the dinosaurs who walked the Earth long before us, believe in religion? Did the Tyrannosaurus rex go to Church every Sunday and preach to God Almighty before hunting for his next pray? Religion is just a way for churches to scam hard working citizens like you of your money.
I don't know nearly enough about Western imperialism in South Africa to confidently comment on this but I'm inclined to agree with you. The Christian churches in South Africa definitely partook in the apartheid debate to some degree, but no, I wouldn't say you can connect Christianity with apartheid the way you can connect it with the Crusades, the colonialism in the Americas and East Asia, etc.
Yes. You're right. Arabia during the birth of Islam was not stable, whereas the Roman Empire during the birth of Christianity was. That's not a full explanation, however, because there WERE violent Jewish revolts against Rome in the Judean province circa the time of Jesus's teachings, as there had been against previous conquerors of the Levant. The whole fascinating thing about Jesus was that rather than join a long line of Jewish rebels - Zedekiah (against the Babylonians), the Maccabees (against the Seleucids), Judas of Galilee (against the Romans) - he preached a humble, peaceful, spiritual revolution. In fact, there's a pretty interesting theory, which I think deserves to be taken seriously even if it's a long shot, that the Roman leadership fabricated the story of Jesus in order to present the Jews with a means of controllable nonviolent protest, because Judea was a huge problem province for the Romans in the first century CE (the Great Revolt dealt with by Vespasian and Titus would've happened a few decades after Jesus's death).
But I would suggest that this is all moot because Islam (a) insists like the other Abrahamic religions on an absolute morality and (b) presents itself as God's final revelation to humankind. I have yet to encounter a remotely convincing reconciliation of these notions with exhortations that we have to cut medieval Islam slack because Muhammad and his successors lived in a violent place during violent times. Those exhortations smack of the same moral relativism that moralistic monotheisms reject.
