Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad

Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by Kiro on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:53AM (#8879435)

I don't think one Christian terrorist is enough to say that Western Christianity "certainly" is violent. I wouldn't even say that about Islam even though I think Islam has some problems with violence that Western Christianity doesn't have.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by olavk on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:10AM (#8879510)

I'm not saying western Christianity in general is violent! Certainly Breivik is a lone extremist with absolutely no support by any mainstream church. But it doesn't change the fact that he was a christian and what he considered christian values (in his own eccentric interpretation) is part of what he believed he fought for. That makes him a christian terrorist, unless you apply some kind of "no true scotscman" filter, which could just as well be used to argue that no muslim terrorists are actually muslim terrorists.

Another example would be the IRA.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by Kiro on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:21AM (#8880351)

You're right and I agree that he was a Christian terrorist in that sense. I was mostly commenting the use of "certainly".

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