Christianity- minus 600 years

This morning I had a discussion with someone whom I consider to be extremely knowledgeable, cultured and tolerant. In discussing the extremist viewpoints on all religions ( but specifically radical Islam) and expressing my concerns, he made a statement “but look at Christianity, minus 600 years”.

I am not capable of reading all of the history I would like to in the time I would like to post this article, but I know there is a wealth of it out there.

I will start with this, a pious fraud is nothing more than fraud, and it is based on false premises and lies and given respect only by those who believe the lie. Therefore it is their own ‘truth’ and they would never be able to view it as a lie. Religious wars throughout time, the Crusades, Milhemet Mitzvah, The Thirty Years War, French Wars of Religions, or modern day (radical) Jihad, all have adopted versions of pious fraud for their own basis to kill, conquer and relinquish back what they see as theirs…they wholly believe they are fighting for truth and this is not only radical Islam, this has been done for centuries within religious context.

Being that the roots of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all fall under the hand of the same God, how could all claim that ‘their’ war is different, their war is good or have a call to arms in the name of God? It’s baffling. I am not getting it, missing the point.

If a pious lobotomy could be possible, perhaps they could see themselves in a mirror and look at it from a different perspective, ‘see’ what is being done and what is being lived, passed on to the next generation. The greatest of all religious offense is that their actions are causing re-actions, and all in the name of God. When you take those actions and re-actions out of the context that people believe they are acting in and look purely at the act itself- how is it not clear that so much of this is wrong. Killing is wrong, taking property of others is wrong, disrespecting any human life is wrong. Acting on behalf of God and in the name of God while disrespecting the life, people and the world that God created, is that not only acting on behalf of God, but as God? How can any one person deem righteousness over another? Make or take value to a human life?