How to Trust a moderate Muslim?

[Lune]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You area really showing your ignorance here Lune =/ and just coming across as angry rather than reasoned. You're completely ignoring the essence of Christianity.

Tell me more about the essence of Christianity. Which denomination's essence are you talking about? Catholics? Lutherans? Mennonites? Because they are all pretty different.

Let's start with one of the basic fundamentals of OG Christianity: compassion for the poor. He who is humbled shall be exalted, right? Paul the Apostle made a big deal about this.

For over 1500 years there was an identity crisis between the core of Christ's message toward poverty and greed, and basic economic reality. Most Europeans wouldn't even lend money and charge interest for centuries. As late as the 1600's people were writing plays like Cenodoxus and Faust about the dangers of wealth and pride, people who burned in hell for making too much money and being proud of their accomplishments. Modern Christianity, and modern Christian nations, are so unlike Christ's original teachings it astounds me. It was a trend among Spanish nobles to see who could live in conditions of poverty with the most ostentation, and who could go on the longest beggar pilgrimages.

I'm pretty sure that simply by rejecting capitalism, I'm almost as Christian as you guys are.

"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:25 is pretty clear, as is Luke 14:11