Christianity could be a higher order way of organizing lives

[BananaStand]

I'm curious what you mean by this. Do you think that most Muslims outside of the West actively are violent (in a capacity greater than other comparable populations)? Or do you think the support for violence performed by a minority is greater?

Does it matter? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

I was raised catholic, but very little of it actually "landed" with me. Though one particular mass does stand out. I might be fuzzy on the details because I was only about 12 at the time. But basically, some religious zealot got a hold of a gun, and some bullets, and used them to shoot up an abortion clinic.

The priest that day gave a sermon urging people to NOT engage in any discussion of abortion. Do not exploit a tragedy for your own political ends. Do not succumb to the reflexive urge to say "We denounce the shooting, but those people would be alive if they didn't try to make a living killing babies". Just stop at "we denounce the shooting".

Like I said, my memory is fuzzy, but the moral of the story is, someone isn't your enemy just because of differing political beliefs. Escalating a disagreement to the level of hatred, and then to level of killing is NOT what this religion is about. I also feel there was some call for remorse in that sermon. Every person in that church is part of a religion that peddled ALOT of hateful rhetoric about abortion, so they should carry some blame for the one fringe individual who took it too far.

If this was happening in mosques across the world, then I guarantee you that the polls would not show massive amounts of support for violence among muslims the way they do now.

Every time a Muslim does something bad, the religion sends out a spokesperson saying "please don't pin this on the entire religion of islam" which is just code for "Don't say anything bad about my religion or I will brand you a racist"

Where is the voice of islam saying the things my catholic priest said? Where is the pro-active preaching of peace? There's no way that exists with any prevalence among the 1 billion + muslims in the world if nearly a third of them have no problem putting a backpack of explosives on a bus next to a baby.