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True. Both religions are equally shit.
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Not a big student of modern history, are you?
"Srebrenica massacre, slaying of more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area—a process known as ethnic cleansing. The massacre, which was the worst episode of mass murder within Europe since World War II" source
The christians were committing so many murders of non-christians, because they were non-christians, NATO intervened to protect the non-christians.
Linking to the serb / Bosnian war is kinda cheating.
That's an absolutely atrocious event, which indeed was caused by christians, no doubt. But that whole region was awash with every possible flavor of violence.
Well yes religions tend to throw areas into waves of violence.
In fairness, it's also just a tool to justify the violence against others. "No, I don't want your territory, that would be bad. I want to follow God command, and if there's riches by accident.."
In fairness, it's also just a tool to justify the violence against others. "No, I don't want your territory, that would be bad. I want to follow God command, and if there's riches by accident.."
That seemed clear when I first learned of European imperialism. We learned about Spanish conquest of the new world, we would study their reasons for going to the west. Quoting the period they would say they needed to spread religion, but also that there happened to be a fabled city of gold that they had to find. It's no different today. Authoritarian governments will use whatever means to spread their culture and dominance. Religion is a convenient tool, if properly studied though how can it actually justify any atrocities? Every major religion has specific guidelines about not killing innocent people, not doing 'evil', helping the needy, etc.
Did NATO intervene in NK in 1992 when muslims were killing christians? No, cause those muslims were feral cousins of Turkey, and Turkey is part of NATO. Just in that case christians got lucky and managed to defend themselves.
I think you suck at modern history too.
Please look at the thread title, the post I responded to, and then ask yourself if your response applies.
Applies to statement I was answering.
Okay, I'll explain your error.
@Jimmydean1366@lemmynsfw.com was referring to christians that "stopped doing this shit".
You said:
So how does your comment refute that christians "stopped doing this shit" when I posted the historical reference to Bosnia? Your comment doesn't. What other people besides christians is irrelevant in this line of conversation. Your comment about muslims doesn't apply. We're not playing "but others did it too!" I was responding directly to the comment about christians still doing this.
You could’ve said that without being a dick.
Oh get off your fucking high horse mate. That was some of the tamest shit ever, oh no they pointed out the user was ignorant of the topic they were talking about and didn’t mollycoddle it in a layer of feel good compliments, the fucking horror.
And than you come along and call them a dick.
You're absolutely right, and for that I apologize.
I get frustrated that people make strong statements denying the suffering of others. However, because of how I said it, I'm sure I create more friction that needed. Thank you for calling me out on it. I'll remember this in the future and try to hold my frustration in check.