What highly disturbs me is what the Christian Crusaders did to Jerusalem in order to "free" it.
Which taught me that Fanatics of any kind can be highly dangerous.
which, Al, has nothing to do with religion at all. religion is only to officially legitimise the invasion. the actual motive i believe is either greed/hate. of course it didn't help any that the gullible or equally greedy/hateful church authorities at that time were just as eager.
please don't make a mistake of linking believers with the belief in ways that both are inseparable. i for 1, as a christian, condemns the so-called Crusade. the crudade was a christian version of 'jihad'. does that make all christians potential fanatics & therefore to be curbed? do the stupid few muslims that abused their religion to justify their cruel acts somehow make we believe that Islam is bad right to the core? does the aggresively passive bhuddists make Bhuddism a fuddy duddy religion? how about science with all the realisations that earlier theories & findings were flawed so much it was downright embarassing? does that make science a doubtful method/technique of learning?
as how an uncle of mine puts it, the bible is a double-edged sword. i think u know what i mean.