3) You do understand that the Crusades really do have an effect on how the Islamic World views the west, don't you?
Dear
JoeB131 I think you hit the key point here,
the real issue is RETRIBUTION, and whether people forgive other groups or seek to attack in revenge.
Hitler acted out of fear and unforgiveness and committed genocide in the spirit of Retributive Justice or Anti Christ.
Jihadists do this now.
It is the spirit of Antichrist that we are saying is abusing religion.
Now let's look at what is correcting that. Where is Restorative Justice practiced?
This is the meaning of Christianity and Christ Jesus as bringing lasting Justice and Peace for all humanity.
What Obama missed is agreeing with Christians on the true spirit and message.
he only pointed out the bad, but didn't affirm the REAL Christian message is Restorative Justice not retributive.
and the reason he left this out is he is too busy practicing and preaching retributive justice
by teaching voting as the best revenge, and seeing half of America as the enemy to be defeated.
so he was not in a position to promote what he himself is not practicing in full.
if we want people to make the distinction between jihadists from muslims who aren't antichrist,
we need to make the distinction between hitlers and klan from the christians who aren't antichrist.
if we keep throwing in the hitlers and klan saying those are christians
why do you think people keep throwing in jihadist with muslims and saying they are the same religion?
What I found allows people to make this distinction is forgiveness.
if they cannot forgive the wrongs, they project the blame on the whoel group.
so you are right that this affects perception.
but Joe it goes both ways. if you want people to forgive Muslims and Jihadists
so they can separate these two, you also have to be fair and promote
forgiveness of Christians from antichristian genocides in order to separate the two.