The Associated Press reported last Friday that thousands of Muslims in the Central African Republic were hounded as, "...crowds of angry Christians shouted 'we're going to kill you all.'" Sounds like these Christians gave up following the teachings of Jesus Christ, instead opting to follow the actions of another Christian...Adolf Hitler.
The first female President of this former French colony has said she will declare war on Christians slaughtering Muslims, according to The New York Daily News. I guess she follows the tenets of another nation's President, Bashar al-Assad.
The Washington Post earlier last week published a story about a Christian man, Polin Pumandele, who was accosted by a Muslim mob in Bangui in the Central African Republic. The mob pushed him into a ditch, then stabbed him and cut his throat. He was 23 and was walking to collect wood for his family. I can only assume this mob followed the great Muslim prophet named Saddam Hussein.
Ah, religion! What wonderful things you have given the world. Sunni Muslims hate Shia Muslims, so they kill one another. Hindus and Muslims continue to fight to the death in India and Pakistan. Catholics killed Protestants in Northern Ireland. The Catholic Church led the Inquisition to rid the world of Jews and Muslims and other "non-believers." History is rife with these conflicts and they continue throughout the world today. There seems to have been no period of world history when fighting did not rage in some part of the globe over God, murders occurring because, "my God is better than your God."Maiming and killing others in the name of God is not a religious struggle. Tell the truth! You fight and kill your fellow human beings because you are an ignorant person full of hate for anyone who does not look like or think the same as you. In other words you are just a common cold-blooded murderer.
In the U.S. where perhaps now we have become a bit more civil during these battles, a different religious war has reared its ugly head. Prentice-Hall's World History textbook, used in a Florida County's Advanced Placement classes, favors Islam over Christianity and Judaism, according to Fox News. Florida Representative Ritch Workman (R-Melbourne) is outraged. The textbook, according to Workman and some Brevard County School Board members, has a chapter dedicated to the history of Islam. Evidently, they think Judaism and Christianity should each have its own chapter as well.
This 34-chapter text breaks down the history of our world from Pre-history to the Present in seven units, all based on time periods. Unit 2, which covers Regional Civilizations, 730 BC through 1650 AD, has one Chapter each entitled in order: The Rise of Europe; The High and Late Middle Ages; The Byzantine Empire, Russia, and Eastern Europe; Muslim Civilizations; Kingdom and Trading States of Africa; and The Spread of Civilization in East and Southeast Asia.
I will bet $100 to the proverbial doughnut that not one of the elected officials screaming holy murder has read this text in order to understand chapter and unit context. The chapter in question is not about Islam, it is about the civilizations that evolved around Islam. It is no different than any discussion of the rise of Europe must include the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, the rise of Protestantism, and the Reformation.
Why is it people who understand so little of the world and its history, and so little about religion, are the ones who cause the most problems for the rest of us? This is religious nonsense based on illiteracy.
If you are so insecure in your religious belief as to worry about Advanced Placement students losing their religion through a textbook, perhaps you and your children have religious beliefs that are insufficiently grounded.
Whether you kill in the name of God, or just criticize others in the name of God, your acts are, quite literally, godless.
This 34-chapter text breaks down the history of our world from Pre-history to the Present in seven units, all based on time periods. Unit 2, which covers Regional Civilizations, 730 BC through 1650 AD, has one Chapter each entitled in order: The Rise of Europe; The High and Late Middle Ages; The Byzantine Empire, Russia, and Eastern Europe; Muslim Civilizations; Kingdom and Trading States of Africa; and The Spread of Civilization in East and Southeast Asia.I will bet $100 to the proverbial doughnut that not one of the elected officials screaming holy murder has read this text in order to understand chapter and unit context. The chapter in question is not about Islam, it is about the civilizations that evolved around Islam. It is no different than any discussion of the rise of Europe must include the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, the rise of Protestantism, and the Reformation.
If you are so insecure in your religious belief as to worry about Advanced Placement students losing their religion through a textbook, perhaps you and your children have religious beliefs that are insufficiently grounded.
Whether you kill in the name of God, or just criticize others in the name of God, your acts are, quite literally, godless.
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