Hi there DAVID F...

It's good to read your interesting commentary juxtaposing Islam and Christianity, back in days gone by. Both of these religions practiced quite violent ways due in part, to the way justice and punishment was duly dispensed.

I think you'd agree now though, most people who engage in either religion, are far more tolerant and reasonable in their way of interacting with each other? Except the few radicals essentially from Islamic religions.

I recall way back at school we did quite a bit on the Inquisition which was both grossly unfair and 'bloody' to the extreme. Spain did nothing to spread the word of Catholicism or Christianity as a consequence of their 'cleansing' of poor quality 'Roman Catholic' practitioners.

Dear o sung wu,

The secular western states have tamed Christianity. However, outside of that area Christianity can still be just as barbarous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

"The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a rebel group and heterodox Christian cult which operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo....The LRA was listed as a terrorist group by the United States, though it has since been removed from the list of designated active terrorist groups. It has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, child-sex slavery, and forcing children to participate in hostilities."

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/god_loves_uganda_africas_terrifying_christian_revival/

"about the struggle of gay activists amid that nation’s toxic climate of right-wing Christianity and official homophobia. Both films touch on the life and death of David Kato, who by his own account was Uganda’s first out gay man, and on the infamous proposed Ugandan law – not yet put into practice — carrying life imprisonment for homosexual acts and the death penalty for repeat offenders. (No one seems to have noticed that the law is incoherent on its face: How are you supposed to sin again if you’ve been locked up for life? Do they plan to impose the death penalty for sex in prison?)"

Dear o sung wu,

I agree that outside of the violent, intolerant minority most Christians, Muslims and people of other religions are just trying to get along in life and be decent people. However, if your religion tells you have a truth denied to others and your religion also tells you that you should push it on to others that can be a recipe for horrors.

Paul,

Let us not forget the infamous "Sunday Observance Act" which plagued NSW for many years, it was. thankfully, repealed around 1972/3.

The best is atheism!

Yeah, what the spammer said. ^^