Christianity isn't a religion of Peace - Home Office

[Vinty]

Others claim that they have the right to seize all land from its inhabitants according to their favourite book.

“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites

You can always find a god to say what you want him to, provided you are selective enough in what you choose.

There is no evidence that God promised Abram anything.

 

[durhamplumber]

There is no evidence that God promised Abram anything.

Or that god exists

 

[JP_]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Death_toll_of_Christianity

 

[breadnbutter]

Or that god exists

lets not go there , 200 thousand posts later, lets respect that you don't believe and we do.

 

[motorbiking]

I suspect there is a degree of spin in this news article. It’s well known that certain protected characteristics are persecuted in Iran, so faking homosexuality or christianity for example are a good ruse for an asylum application.

Is it plausible that when the individual claimed his faith, he was asked what these specific books were about and chanced his luck with a good but incorrect guess?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

There is a link between sincere religious belief and morality.

In that case you have no sincere religious beliefs.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

lets respect that you don't believe and we do.

Let's respect that you are irrational and superstitious and have no care for truth and facts and evidence.

 

[Vinty]

In that case you have no sincere religious beliefs.

Whether I have sincere religious beliefs is irrelevant.
I said that there is a link between sincere religious beliefs and morality.

 

[Vinty]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Death_toll_of_Christianity

The figures quoted are fantasy.
No one really knows how many people died in wars of the past.
In the Americas most of the indigenous population who died in the colonization process died of disease and not intentional genocide.

 

[durhamplumber]

said that there is a link between sincere religious beliefs and morality.

If that means you need religion to have morals,you are utterly wrong.I do not need any nonsense relogion for morals .Sad if you do.

 

[durhamplumber]

he world is not a peaceful place in general

And religion certainly contributes to wars and killings whichever way you wish to deny it...

 

[breadnbutter]

Let's respect that you are irrational and superstitious and have no care for truth and facts and evidence.

lets respect that is only your opinion that has no truth, facts, or evidence

 

[breadnbutter]

And religion certainly contributes to wars and killings whichever way you wish to deny it...

I don't denie that religion causes wars, it does, look at ISIS,a lot of religions are cultic, oppressive, evil.

 

[Vinty]

If that means you need religion to have morals,you are utterly wrong.I do not need any nonsense relogion for morals .Sad if you do.

People with no religion can be moral just as people with genuine religious beliefs can be moral.
Today we have an aggressive Atheism which goes out its way to denigrate all religious believers.
A lot of the criticism religion receives is deserved but there are religious believers who are sincere and base their moral values on the Bible.

 

[Vinty]

I don't denie that religion causes wars, it does, look at ISIS,a lot of religions are cultic, oppressive, evil.

To much religion and not enough Christianity causes wars.