Militia Accused in Plot to Kill Police

• jhay78

  

  Let's balance the two on the scales:
  
  A) 17 dudes out in the woods in southeastern Michigan- they are a tiny minority (but still a big deal considering their goals). Not even close to representing the entirety of Christianity or America
  
  B) Islamic exremism/terrorism, from the Iranian wackos who ousted the shahs in the 1970's, to the Olympic village terrorists in Munich in '76, to the '93 Trade Center bombings, to the bombing of the USS Cole, to the bombing of 2 US Embassies in Africa, to 9/11, to the Fort Hood shooter, and thousands upon thousands of murderous attacks in between.
  No, that's not all representative of the whole, but it outweighs A exponentially.
  
  I know full well the history of Christianity, and it is often marked by dark periods of people doing horrific things in the name of Christ. However, none of these things were endorsed or taught by Jesus or his disciples or the early church- in fact they taught to the contrary. The failures of Jesus' followers (or those who claim to be Christ's) do not negate the clear teachings of the NT.
  I don't know enough about the Koran to know if Muslim "exremists" or terrorists are accurately carrying out what the Koran commands, or if they're distorting Koranic teaching like these militiamen have distorted Biblical teaching.
• I Wear Pants

  It's hard to make a fair comparison while there is constantly war going on (much of it caused by outsiders) in Muslim countries. Take the Post 9/11 resistance to US troops.
  
  I don't know about you but if there were some assholes that blew up some buildings in Iran who were from the US and Iran came over here and started blowing shit up I'd probably try to kill them too.
  
  We're in completely different positions than these other countries so it's hard to gauge if there would be a statistically similar amount of people committing these terrorist acts if we would assume everything else the same.
  
  We are the richest most powerful country in the world so it makes sense that we have less people that are unhappy to the point that they go insane and blow up shit.