Indeed, they'll ban gay marriage, say women are subservient to men, say that the will of god is contained within their holy book (and it is supreme), non-followers are doomed to eternity of torment, or that their divine being should be invoked in both national pledges and on currency, that churches are exempt from paying government taxes, that women are not to have abortions, and all those other terribly anti-freedom, anti-choice things.
Wow. You just described the beliefs of the vast majority of our Founding Fathers.
It's soooo different than fundamentalist christians. How could anyone mistake the two?
Lol, I get it now - yours was a parody...
On a more serious note, those set against Christianity love to paint it's followers like the paragraph above... :banghead:
Those who actually follow it, however, know that women help the men while the men serve the women.
They know that God's will was revealed to men, which is contained in a book that actually lays the foundation for women helping the men while the men serve the women.
They know that those who reject God, where heaven is, are simultaneously choosing an afterlife without God, where heaven isn't, that the lake of fire represents their shame while the lake of ice (see Revelations) represents an existence without God.
They know since God would love for us all to get along, why not invoke remembrances of him and what he espouses: love, on our country's currency and pledge?
They know as our Founding Fathers knew of Jesus' "render under Caesar what is Caesar's" statement with respect to taxes and said, "We won't be like Godless Caesar. We'll exempt God's churches from paying taxes."
They know of the horrible subterfuge surrounding abortion, namely, that all this business surrounding "choice" denies the unborn baby any choice at all in the matter, denying all three of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" while the consensual (i.e. non-rape/incest) abortions are carried out as an afterthought because no forethought was involved in a consensual act of sex.
I'm not sure who you're attempting to fool with those "terribly anti-freedom, anti-choice things" which are terrible in the way they strangle both freedom and choice in our country to the detriment of our society as a whole. They're little more than putrid twists of illogic turned upside down and re-labeled as "good" while remaining the epitome of the Biblical verse which says in the end times "they call good evil, and evil good."
Interestingly, most of Shariah law is based on the old testament!
What I find equally interesting, however, is where Shariah law departs from the canons accepted by Catholics, Orthodox, and Christians today, and the principle ingredients are Jesus and God's grace.
No, folks - I am NOT preaching. I am, however, playing the devil's advocate, as there is so much anti-Islamic rhetoric out there which is ignorant of being anti-Judeo-Christian as well. Perhaps we should trash all religions as nonsense, but the question then becomes "what forms the basis of society?" Various psychological experiments have repeatedly shown that without an internal locus of control, a group of people in an unforgiving environment will devolve into animalistic tendencies within a couple of days, while a group with an internal locus of control will band together around that locus and continue behaving like humans, even unto their deaths.
Equally interesting is that the latter course of action takes weeks, not days, and is much more conducive to long-term survival.
On that point, I would argue that while many horrible things have been errantly committed in the name of religion/god, a great many more noble things have been done which separate us from our animal brethren by DNA.