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Originally Posted by mburbank
The Pope during the Inquisition certainly managed to find much scriptural support for burning tons of people to death.
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Right, but modern Catholics don't do this (presumably).
The Church, and Christianity in general, has all gone through its dark and primitive phases. And while glimmers of that still exist today, they don't compare to the actions conducted in the name of Islam.
I think what folks like ABC are looking for is an acknowledgement that it isn't just misinterpretation, but rather, something systemically wrong that goes beyond bad translations.
You Max just provided a great example with leviticus. It isn't really about interpretation at all, is it? I think it has more to do with modernity. Christians may believe all sorts of things from the Bible, but it's really their compulsion to act on those things and accept those things that distinguishes them from good and bad, right?
A lot of American Christians would probably feel pretty comfortable in some kind of a theocracy. But the majority, even a lot of Christians, accept that there needs to be a separation of Church and state so that all can be free to practice.
It seems like a lot of Muslim nations haven't quite reached the latter two points as of yet, which would seem to make all of the textual comparisons sort of moot, imo.
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