Interesting article

[Piña]

Originally posted by Jumper69:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Funny I seem to remember invading their country just a little while ago.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Would be relevant if islam had only just since then taken up terrorism. But this has been going on long before we ever had Iraq or Islam on our radar screen.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True, but I was responding to trav's comment about my comment which was specifically about the invasion of Iraq.

The broader picture is of course that there is a long history of extremist motivated violence.

[reason]

Christian doctrine is one of peace.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Even if that were the case, the results have been something to the contrary.

[Emperor Napoleon]

By and large the Christian religion has had a civilizing effect on humanity, the message is good; the messengers often have not been. Compared to other religions in practice today Christianity is one of the least violent (in its preachings)while Buddhism would seem to lay claim to the least violent of all.