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@gameragodzilla The fundamental difference here is nowheres in the Bible does it tell Christians to kill unbelievers (in fact, the reason why it is controversial to both orthodox Jews and Muslims is the acceptance of competing belief systems). The Qu'ran pretty much straight up tells you that you should.
- Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
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@maiyannah True. The Cold War continues to loom over us long after the death of the USSR, huh?
Still, though, the Cold War raged everywhere and while you still obviously see other countries complain about overt CIA intervention due to the Cold War, you only see Islamists committing terrorist attacks.
And mostly against other Muslims, too.
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@maiyannah @gameragodzilla Didn't stop Christians going after Jews for quite some centuries though.
One issue with the Qu'ran may be that Islam is extremely resistant to updating their holy texts. Now Christianity never did that in a too overt way either but with translations and everything there's been quite some opportunities to translate texts based on meaning the translator thought was meant. This allows for a quite natural process of subtly revising all too archaic passages. The Qu'ran on the other hand was written in Arabic and from what I understand may not be translated.
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@verius @maiyannah You don't necessarily have to translate it. I think most modern Christians still go on the King James version. What you can do is excise certain bits that don't function very well while keeping the stuff that's good. Thomas Jefferson did that, where he took the Bible, excised most of the fantastical or supernatural stuff while keeping the morals, because he was a Deist who believed in God, but didn't believe in supernatural or "unscientific" stuff.
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@gameragodzilla Most English-speaking Christians, possibly. Swedish no-longer-National church updated theirs every 100-200 years.
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