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Which religion in your opinion is the worst? Islam or Christianity?

I think both are just as equally as bad as the other.

Sarahroo29 8 Feb 25
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I appreciate that we are all different and try hard to live and let live. I also, as a very mature person, try to live as good a life as I can and respect/help my fellow citizens BUT it is sometimes difficult! First brought up in the Catholic religion (via advice from a strict pair of paternal grandparents), then - due to WW2 - introduced to strict Chapel influences, I became a confused teenager. However, I have always been a thinker and curious about everything - disliking the 'sheep' concept -I started asking more questions.Oh, how disappointing...for I received, either NO answers.(Islam, where one does not ask questions AT ALL?!) And from the Catholic quarter, I was TOLD WHAT TO BELIEVE, and quickly realized it was a religion of fear
and subjugation. (You are even told what books NOT to read..) Being idealistic,at 18 I became a follower of the Jewish faith and married a good Jewish man. Now, decades later, we are both Humanists, while still respectful of the Jewish faith. Praying is a little like going to the Casino!

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At the moment I put Christianity as worse. The "fanatical" are so hyperfixated on demonizing all who don't do exactly as they do, they become worse than the things they are obsessed over ie; Sharia law....or those 2 Mom's in AZ teaching their kids religious hatred. Then there is the abhorrent behavior of abusing spouses and children while simultaneously demonizing GLBT and single parent households

Teddi Level 2 Mar 16, 2018
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U mean worse not worst given a mere 2 choices, I think

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No difference, same meat different gravy.

Yep.

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Worst? Define worst. They're both belief systems.

Google the word, "worst" and then worst will be defined. I'm too tired to type the definition out rn.

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Christianity. In my lifetime of experiences, they've been tje worse at lying, cheating..actually all of their "deadly sins"... Maybe it's because their " God" will forgive them... I have many Islamic friends and find them to be very loyal, honest, forthright, and giving of themselves.

Nice.

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The Nazis thought they were the chosen and exterminating the jews was just doing gods work.
In the americas the genocide of the natives was also out destiny as ordained by god.

And Christians continue to devalue people of color, behaving as if they are still "Masters"

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They're all terrible.

Yes.

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You only gave two. I agree they're two biggies but might I offer another? I would submit the cult of personality. Within the 20th century there has been a huge pile of bodies burned on the sacrificial fire of ideology. I am referring to the unholy trinity of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. To me, the substitution of state-ism for religion is mere semantics.

Well said

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There is no worse--they all have positives and negatives. We need to learn to respect our differences and quit trying to draw lines in the sand

Yes.

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I will say Christianity. Remember that Catholics and Protestants were still killing each other in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.

Oh yeah.

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Isn't tht kind of like asking which form of slow torture is better?

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There all the same

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Right now it has to be Islam. No doubt about it

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If you read the books, Christianity is worse. If you look how they're behaving on the global stage at this very moment, Islam is worse.

Both are horrible enough it matters little.

Okay.

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All religion is intellectual poison. There's no such thing as a good religion.

I concur.

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Before Muhammad , I would have said Christianity , but if you look at the world today Islam wins hands down .

Hmmm... I think you're right.

@Sarahroo29 In the world today it's Christian countries waging endless war on Islamic countries ... not vice versa. Been that way for a century, so how does this make Islam the worst?

@Druvius They are killing Xians.

@Sarahroo29 For every Christian they kill, Christians have killed dozens or hundreds of Muslims. The enormity of the crimes waged by Christian nations against Muslim nations since 9/11 is frightening. And Muslims have formed human shields around Christian churches in Egypt to protect them from the extremists. My point basically is when you're talking about faiths with hundreds of millions of adherants making broad generalizations is unsupported, especially since there's no shortage of horror to go around among them.

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Both horses have jaundice. As do their kin.

Yes.

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I'd have to say Christianity here in the west as it affects far more people than Islam but it was no easy choice

Yeah.

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In this century, Islam hands down,
thousand years ago, I would have said Christianity.

Probably. I think you're right.

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Islam is like Christianity except its still in its adolescence. Look at Christendom around the 1400-1500s. That`s where Islam is now.

Yes. It will get worse I bet.

@Gwendolyn2018 I would submit that if there is a golden age for Christianity it budded in the Renaissance and blossomed in the Industrial Age. I admit that it is fraught with flaws but from Newton to Darwin to Crick a lot of ground has been covered.

@Gwendolyn2018 To a large extent Christianity has been a victim of its own success. The sunday schools that were initiated by Methodists in the 19th cent. were just that, schools where the poor children could receive a basic education. This emancipation has led to a level of knowledge that made them redundant.
I still stand by my original post. The similarities between Islam now and Christianity in the 14 & 1500`s a striking. Not only it its age but in its behavior. Factional wars fought over differences in dogma, fatwas & excommunications etc. The very word " fanatic " stems from the inquisition.

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Probably Islam given how volatile it is. Christianity is pretty terrible in its own right, but it has had a lot of time to be de-fanged and become more benign that it was in the past. Now even after all this time, Christianity still has a lot of problems, but religion is still fundamentally toxic.

Islam never really had its enlightenment or anything in that regards, it still has a lot of social progress to catch up on to be on par with most of the modern world. When the crazier denominations still hold the most power, it's always gonna worse off.

I concur.

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Both suck, but Christianity has a more direct and negative impact on my life.

What is really interesting is to look at the history of Islam. They are where all the math, astronomy, they named the stars. Almost to bad their civilization failed.

I was raised in an Xian home.

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Basically they are both the same.Same book just different histories.

Yes.

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I don't think either is bad, I think that just like atheism there are good and bad people

Okay.

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