> Second, I don't try to justify or excuse (I mean, Jesus!), just to put in perspective and explain.
That's the point, you are putting in perspective unrelated things and unrelated places and unrelated times...
None of the events you listed are related to the polling results that almost half of Muslims think that death should be the penalty for apostasy. That's something inherent to the ideology and its resulting culture.
>That's the point, you are putting in perspective unrelated things and unrelated places and unrelated times...
That's why it's called a perspective though: because it has to expand the places and times (the "perspective view") we're taking into account to explain a situation.
But while expanded, they are not "unrelated" -- the places that had those things done to them are the homelands of those people, all have ancestors, relatives and friends that suffered from those things. And similar things (interventions, plundering etc) happens to this very day. Heck, those ISIS fanatics were pampered initially by foreign powers to topple the, call it whatever but at least stable, regime.
>None of the events you listed are related to the polling results that almost half of Muslims think that death should be the penalty for apostasy.
When you hold people in misery, fear and bad living conditions (and poor education), don't be surprised if they revert or held closer to backwards beliefs. Carpet bombing and plundering creates more fanatics than investing or opening a school.
In America, some 28% of christians are biblical literalists of the "God said it, I believe it, that settles it sort"
So they probably would agree with this passage from their bible: Deuteronomy 13:6-10:
“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you … Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die.”
So... Yea. Oh, and in the 80s in high school, I had a loaded gun held to my head and was told that if I did t believe in god (which god??!!) I must surely be worshipping satan. (The kid with the gun was pulled away by his friends. Lest I forget to mention it, this was a school in Texas. Somehow that is relevant, I'm sure.)
> So they probably would agree with this passage from their bible: Deuteronomy 13:6-10:
No. The bible says itself that those laws no longer apply.
Romans 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Galatians 5:13-15 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
How about Matthew 25:35-40? How well is that going? People paying much attention to that one, or are Syrian refugees excluded from "one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine"?
That's the point, you are putting in perspective unrelated things and unrelated places and unrelated times...
None of the events you listed are related to the polling results that almost half of Muslims think that death should be the penalty for apostasy. That's something inherent to the ideology and its resulting culture.