"Kill them all, and let God sort them out," was originally spoken by a Catholic abbot.
A Christian cleric acting in direct
opposition to the teachings of the founder of his faith.
Not really. The person who said that said it in the course of a CHURCH SANCTIONED campaign against people the Church had designated as "Heretics". The person who said that was the Papal Legate- the church's representative on site.
While whether he actually said it or not is in dispute, the fact was, the church sanctioned crusade resulted in thousands of "heretics" being slaughtered, to the point where no one believes in that religion anymore.
By comparison, Christian, Jewish, Mandean, Yazidi, Baha'i and Zoroastrian enclaves existed across the Middle East for centuries, usually in peace.
That is, unless some other country comes in and ***** everything up looking for oil or weapons that don't exist.
A Muslim cleric encouraging violence or war oftentimes acts in direct compliance with the teachings of the founder of his faith.
Big difference.
You know what, in times of War, Christian Clerics went out there and told people to go out and kill for the Greater Glory of Jesus, even when Killing their fellow Christians. World War one was the Lutherans and Catholics against the Anglicans and Orthodox. And the Churches had no problem with it.
Another way of distilling the core or root problem here...
1. show me where in the New Testament that Jesus of Nazareth said that it was OK to wage war and to kill and commit violence in the name of God or in support of his church
2. show me where in the Q'uran that Muhammed said that it was OK to wage war and to kill and commit violence in the name of God or in support of his religion
Believers, and even clerics, can
say that it's OK to do so.
But, when the Founder says that it's
not OK, Believers can always point to that as a sign that the church is overreaching and not being true to core beliefs.
By contrast, when the Founder himself says that it
is OK, well... no such braking mechanism or reset button exists, by which to stop the madness, and, to add to the problem, those permissions can (and frequently are) used, to build a case for proposed wars.
We are talking two different houses of faith.
Each of those houses has a different foundation.
The nature of the foundation dictates the direction in which the house will lean be default - towards peace or war.