Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Lets face it Date:   8/28/2013 10:50:22 AM (updated 8/28/2013 10:51:42 AM)

Christianity has a well documented history of barbaric behavior. I’m not hearing any Christians deny that.  The major accomplishment has been the personalization of the religion… an increasingly smarter and critical body of adherents.

Christians (and Jews)  are able to veto forced conversion, crusades (jihad by Christians abetted by the church), and cruel enforcement of religious tenets. The mature religion allows that “coming to God” is a personal decision. The mature Christian recognizes the evolution of the “Children of God” from the failed, church imposed, warlike Zionism punctuated by periods of decadence – to the accommodation of the weaknesses of God’s people through the gift of grace offered in the New Testament.

Jihad and grace are mutually exclusive. To put it a more simple context, Christianity has matured into a deserving civility. Islam has not yet.

In your words, MM, “We need to become energy independent and let the Middle East return to the 6th century where their ideology and religion belong.”

Amen to that.