(03-04-2026, 06:59 PM)Kenzo1 Wrote: I never see Trump as a religious ,he is pretender .
But are the Iranian clerics neither ? Killing Iranian citizens has been big sport there for at least 50 years for the clerics there , so i would rate them to same gategory as fake religious pretenders .
From my perspective, the main difference is that the actions you describe are one of the main pillars of Fundamentalist Islam - kill off people until the rest fall into line. "Kill the infidel until the whole world is for Allah". It's a similar philosophy to what the Catholic Church had during the Inquisition. They killed off thousands and thousands of other Christians, but Protestants, because those Protestants would not tow the Catholic line.
In contrast, Christianity has moved beyond that, and even the Christian Nationalists / Fundamentalists prefer to try to impose their will on others via the political process rather than by direct killings. They have realized that when you kill someone, you can no longer exert control over them...
... and in the final analysis, it's all about the control, rather than the religion.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake