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Originally Posted by anabundanceoftubes
The reason people pick on Christianity is because it's the largest religion besides atheism. about one 1/7 of the world's population is christian. Also, Christians have given themselves a reputation for trying to "save" others without asking if they want to be saved. Or just forgoing the saving and killing people who don't share their beliefs. Read: Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Holocaust. I think people would give Christians a lot more leniency if they hadn't gone from being martyrs to the people who killed martyrs. Didn't Jesus want you guys to turn your other cheek anyway?
Also a lot of the more famous Christians happen to be conservatives, who'll use certain elements of the Bible to prove their political points. Which I find irritating to no end. Like using that section of Leviticus as an excuse to be prejudiced against homosexuals. Do you know what Leviticus also says? That if a daughter misbehaves you are allowed to sell her into child prostitution. And that you can't wear clothing made out of blended fabric. And that people with disabilities cannot become priests. There's really a whole bunch of stuff in there that would never fly today.
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Ok so does that apply to everything? Because America is one of the most powerful countries in the world we should pick on it? Can you see how ridicolous that sounds?
Musliums try to 'save others' too, but I don't see people going on about that.
As far as the way some Christians have behaved, it's not how they should have used their faith. We can't control the past, the Church group did a lot of bad things to get power and fortune, but that doesn't mean the whole religion is bad. You can't stereotype a whole religion (that has that many followers) because of what humans did, because God put us on this Earth as sinners and it's up to us to make things right.