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Originally Posted by Lebell
That is actually one of the bones that is picked in my other current thread; the idea that the sins of the father are visited on the son.
Like not feeling responsible for slavery, I do not feel responsible for the real or imagined sins of Christianity stretching back into history.
What I can feel responsible for is what Christianity is doing today and how I support it or work to change it.
Likewise, I don't expect Muslims to feel responsible for the invasion of Europe, but I do expect them to speak out against and actively work to change radical Islam (something many are loath to do).
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Yeah that's one thing I am just really getting sick of seeing here on the boards. Everytime an the issue of radical Islam, people always interject what Christians did nearly a milenia ago... like myself, or my catholic sect, is somehow cupable today for what went down then. Outside the fact that it doesn't factor in the time (see:relativism), how wars were fought, how immensly different politics were, how power broke down, and that even then the blood wasn't solely on the hands of christians; it has no relevance to the conversation today, at least how it is interjected.
Christianity has a long stemming tradition, a lot of it is dark. What I don't like is how we get no props for admitting to our sins of the past, how we asked for forgiveness (see: PJP II), and how nobody even recognizes the reforms tht have been made in the last 40 years even.
Bottom Line, Islam has a couple hundred years to catch up before it can even hold a candle to the Christian tradition as far as reform, dogmatic praticality, and relevance is concerned.