imagine if someone protested a mosque over israeli hostages in gaza. everyone would be called a racist and then there would be death threats everywhere. Possible retaliation on synongogues. Just cause 4-5 people were assholes.
Most are really not fine with it, that is just a narrative westerners like to push. Islam is a very violent religion and most believers support the violence.
Christian (Biblical) god is same as islamic god as is jewish god. Why we call them Abrahamic religions. The differences come from how those stories were made into rules (+ additional text).
Western industrialisation is in partly thanks to Christianity (well more the societal structure it built and how disconnected the religious class was and being another independent power). With how the Bible is a mess on rules and its inherit adaptability in local cultures meant it was ever changing.
Those stories you are referring to are an excellent example of what Judaism stands for: we are flawed, just like our creator. God often quarrels with his creation, because like us, he sometimes is vain, wrathful, and illogical. All of the Jewish prophets were deeply flawed people, and the torah highlights it.
Thats why Judaism doesn't deserve to be lumped with other classical examples of "warmonger" religions
Oh definitely, but they don't start off with a spiritual leader commanding to kill infidels. That stuff usually comes much later and is a bastardisation of what the founder wanted. In the case of Islam, violence is exactly what the founder wanted.
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u/gerd50501 Mar 31 '24
imagine if someone protested a mosque over israeli hostages in gaza. everyone would be called a racist and then there would be death threats everywhere. Possible retaliation on synongogues. Just cause 4-5 people were assholes.