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[–] safespacer ago
Yes, we can and indeed should when dealing with people who base their entire notion of reality on the presumption that their fairytale of choice is fact.
Real or not, Jesus Christ is the example to other men according to Christianity, and Muhammad the Prophet according to Islam.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just ignorant. King David only applies to Judaism, was not a Christian, and he and his actions have no bearing on and cannot be used as a justification for anything in Christianity.
The previously established rules were turned on their head with the coming of Christ. Before Christ only the Jews were favored and God's chosen, but with Christ the Jews lost their special privileges, all believers were made equal, and the Hebraic law and tradition was nullified and declared not to apply to Gentile believers. Regarding later rulers, kings can be tyrants despite being Christian, but unlike Muhammad they do not have the authority to set a precedent for other men. Muhammad was a precedent for tyranny, but Jesus was not.
[–] alalzia ago
I posted about Abrahamic religions and this includes judaism
Yes the one was a messianic figure teaching that sacrificing yourself to a cruel , megalomaniac sociopath was the only way to salvation ; the other was about uniting the tribes and force convert everyone else to their own version of megalomaniac sociopath .
Very convenient but again this is low quality material obviously written by desert nomad savages .
This is an interesting topic for discussion as indeed the tradition of the god-king faded and replaced by the god appointed king yet in reality everyone behaved as the hand of god on earth (read about Clovis is you don't believe it) which was no different from what the Pharaohs did.
[–] safespacer ago
Neither figure in your quote is recognized by Judaism, which admittedly is rather cruel.
I already likened Christianity to a disease, only a less serious one than Islam.