Elvis Fu Wrote:
True, but it was the Catholics who boycotted Pepsi because of an unflattering black Jesus in a Madonna video.
I'm not justifying this--no way--just trying to point out where the original pissed-offedness is coming from.
A boycott of an american corporation is radically different than hundreds of people of any particular faith torching embassies or even radically different than if those same catholics had torched everything pepsi...
And as for the Christians shooting doctors--i don't think that there is any possiblity of claiming that it was a direction decided upon by reading the Bible. The
few instances of this were clearly people who are/were insane. The closest a group of fundamentalist Christians get to radical islam, on a large scale, would be the idea that God has given dominion to man-made government to wage offensive war based on their view of human rights, and evil (Pat Robertson saying we should assassinate the pres of Venezuala--or whoever it was, or Bush referrencing God in his decision to start a war in Iraq, etc). However, there is not a large faction of Christian fundamentalists that advocate killing abortion doctors or people who are generally accepted as innocent. It just doesn't exist. However, radical muslims all over the world are killing people that are not believers in Islam. And these actions are large-scale. They are not intermitent and rare like an abortion doctor shooting. Rather, they are daily and without discrimination.
For instance, I saw a picture once of Jesus on His knees bowing down and there was an american flag draped across his back. Now, as a Christian, that is extremely offensive. However, my inclination and the inclination of those who saw it was not to murder the person that made the photo, or torch the building that had placed the painting on their wall. In almost every single movie that Hollywood produces characters say Jesus, Christ, or goddamn. This is something that a majority of people within the Christian faith find offensive. However, there is not really a "penalty of death" clause in our religious practices for this type of behavior. Especially when it is done by someone or some people that have no affiliation or personal necessity to be respectful of the names which are used within the Christian religion.
All this to say that comparing the torching of embassies by hundreds of radical muslims globally to the actions of a group of self-proclaimed Christians that can be counted on one hand is a bit outlandish. There is a large difference between the two and to think that they are anywhere near similar, even in quantity, is a view of the world that I hope is not generally accepted.