Is Christianity a Religion of Peace? ( Rebuttals - 3 of 4 )

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Representing the Muslim perspective was Brother Abdullah al Andalusi: Brother Abdullah a public speaker and activist.

He is a former Christian who embraced Islam at a young age, and has studied Islam in depth since he was 18. He also has an academic background in Computer Science. Abdullah has had a long experience in working for Islamic revival and the establishment of Islamic shariah in the Muslim world.

Abduallah is a member of the Muslim Dawah Initiative its formed of members from the Muslim community with experience in public speaking, apologetics, polemics, research and community work.

His activities involve speaking at community centres, universities, colleges and appearances on various TV programmes. He is experienced in debates with Atheists, Secularists and Christians, and has be involved in public and radio debates with Atheists and Christians.

He has made hundreds of videos defending Islam on Youtube.

He has debated Christians on Hyde Park Corner for the past 5 years.

Representing the Christian side was Mr. David Wood: David is a former atheist, he converted to Christianity after examining the evidence for Gods existence

He is a Teaching Fellow at Fordham University, where he teaches Philosophical Ethics

He holds degrees in Biology and Philosophy and is coauthor of the book Who Was Jesus? Who Was Muhammad? Two Debates

He runs the website www.AnsweringMuslims.com

The Topic of Debate: Is Christianity a Religion of Peace?

Abdullah al Andalusi

vs.

David Wood

(St Lawrence Church and church centre, London, UK July 16th 2009)

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[sprayprayanddie]

Wow christians had their ass handed to them.

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.Again. notice how how this guy uses hard core historical facts. None of this my opinion your opinion, garbage.

[muslim2theend]

@MrGrandDragon

No matter what u say, the OT is NOT peaceful book, n christians follow it- what they like.

[MrGrandDragon]

The Bible DID NOT influence any Government since David opposes the Church Fathers who sought to implement Christian values to the state. David opposes the idea of State Authority as a Christian concept yet he boasts that Modern Governmental law was dictated and influenced by the Bible...

So the problem we have is that David's ideal of sticking to the Book has made him ADMIT that his religion is VOID of state regulation which therefore promotes and ALLOWS perversion and Anarchy

[MrGrandDragon]

St. Augustine is one of the MOST important figures in the development of Western Christianity and for David to dismiss his influence is disgraceful. Every Christian and EVERY Functional Christian Government consciously was influenced by his concepts. In order to make Christianity a viable authority Agustine interpreted and understood what Jesus said and made practical sense out of it!

Let me reiterate, to establish peace you have to have an authority, the upper hand..

[MrGrandDragon]

Christian principles therefore are inadequate and hopelessly impractical to create a viable and functioning Government.

David has no point

[MrGrandDragon]

David KNOWS that what Jesus taught had NOTHING to do with a State therefore to argue Islam is not peaceful is like comparing Apples to Oranges since Islam also involves Governmental decisions such as implementing Penal Codes but Christianity has NO governmental law which is why Jesus never spoke of those issues.

[MrGrandDragon]

Jesus was teaching etiquettes which is why what he said DOES NOT apply to a state where the Jews are in power. Penal Code is a necessity and punishing physical and offensive violence is a GOOD thing.

Peace also involves ESTABLISHING that peace and that involves preventing anarchy.

David needs to differentiate between what an authority does and what an individual does.

What Jesus (pbuh) said is all perfectly well and good to an individual but NOT for a Government

[muslim610]

Good video.