The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected
Juan Cole picks cherries tasty to children and liberals in mixed company.
Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others have picked other cherries tasty to those interested in understanding the connection between texts in the Koran and the politics - and political violence - of various Muslim fundamentalists and their organizations.
And it remains undeniable that Muslims interested in finding textual support for horrific politics and political violence have a far easier time rooting in the Koran than Christians rooting in the New Testament for like support for like politics and violence.
Historically, Christian churchment trying to show textual support for their violence against their enemies have commonly resorted to tortured and blatantly arbitrary readings.
Not so, the Muslims.
But that does not mean there is not abundant textual support in the NT as well as the OT for the most egregious misogyny and the claim by some Christian ministers that "God hates fags".
And slim to none to the contrary.
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