Originally posted by rwingett
It might be more instructive to ask which society on Earth is the least violent? It would be the Amish and Hutterite communities, which are Christian.
Go join them if you like them so much. do they pay you for PR?
You are talking about sub-sets of societies not whole nations, In which case you could
trivially easily find other (and non-religious) groups that are equally (if not more) peaceful.
However if you are talking about nations then the Amish and Hutterites live in and are
protected by the USA, which is mainly Christian in make up also. And is far from peaceful.
You make yet more unfounded assertions, that are trivially demonstrable as being false.
I thought you claimed to be good at debating. (
rhet)
As for the question in the OP.
I don't think it's particularly useful discussion but.
In terms of the religion (as espoused in the relevant holy books before 'interpretation'😉 they
are about par, Sharia law being pretty similar to Mosaic law, and both espousing slavery and
genocide.
However, Over the aeons Christian communities (and countries) have in general been civilised
by secular influences to a far far greater extent than their Islamic equivalents.
This means that in today's world I would say that the practitioners of Islam are (in general/on average)
more violent/dangerous than the Christian equivalent.
And they are centuries behind in moral development.
However this is much like saying Hitler was better than Stalin because Stalin killed more people.
Both religions are bad, and we would be better off without them.
NOTE:
Please note I am discussing the moral values and teachings of the religions, and not the people following them.