If one has to have a Flying Spaghetti Monster at all, then...
I'll take folks worshiping and obeying a LOVING Flying Spaghetti Monster over a BLOODTHIRSTY AND VENGEFUL Flying Spaghetti Monster any day.
As would most sane folk who are interested in peace.
But you miss the point. If one truly believes in a Flying Spaghetti Monster, then you are doing its will by smiting the unbeliever.
the only reason why Christians aren't as "savage" as Muslims is we are all living fat, comfortable lives where we don't even go to church if we don't have to.
If you lived in some war-torn country, you'd probably not be so "civilized">
Christianity has repeatedly and frequently been subverted, in order to wage war and to wreak violence upon the enemies of Faction A or B or C.
But whenever it has been thus subverted, it is because those doing the subverting have
violated the basic or Core Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Islam has repeated and frequently been subverted, in order to wage war and to wreak violence upon the enemies of Faction A or B or C.
But whenever it has been thus subverted, it is because those doing the subverting have
obeyed the basic or Core Teachings of Muhammed.
It is
much easier to drum-up a Religious War or to commit Religiously-Motivated Violence when your Founder and your God say that it's OK to
do so.
As to why Christians are not as 'savage' as Muslims in today's world...
We (Christendom, The West) learned our lesson centuries ago, about large-scale internal rumbles of a religious nature, and we haven't engaged militarily beyond the domains of Christendom
for religious purposes in the better part of a thousand years.
Thanks largely to the Reformation, and, subsequently, our political adaptation of preventative measures - namely: Separation of Church and State.
Islam locked-out changes from Day One. Muhammed declared that the Word of God, as revealed to him, is the latest and greatest, that it supercedes all prior prophetic revelations, and that it is never, in turn, to be superceded or edited or re-interpreted.
That rules out any serious Reformation or Modernization or Gentling Adaptation, methinks.
And even if changes were not locked-out within the dogma and teachings of Islam, there is no practical sign of widespread Reformation on their horizon or time line.
In a religious context, Christians are now less 'savage' than Muslims because the Reformation allowed rank-and-file Christians to slowly re-align their practices more closely with the fundamental or basic or Core Teachings of their Founder, rather than continuing to allow misguided clerics to do their thinking for them in a religious context.
In the case of Christianity, when one re-aligns one's practices more closely in keeping with those of the Founder, one more closely approximates the ideals of "Love thy neighbor" and "Turn the other cheek".
In the case of Islam, when one re-aligns one's practices more closely in keeping with those of the Founder, one more closely approximates the ideals of waging religious war on behalf of the faith and in defense of one's co-religionists, as well as the ideal of oppressing Unbelievers.
Apples and oranges.
