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In reply to the discussion: It's not just Trump: Islamophobia in America is spiraling out of control [View all]RichGirl
(4,119 posts)...discriminatory against women, gays, unbelievers, etc . In the Old Testament God is committing random mass murder all the time. If he isn't killing people he's instructing people to kill each other. Like killing people for working on Sunday, killing gays...etc. Read it yourself. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the desert religions and they all came from Abraham.
The difference between U.S. and Middle East is the culture...not religion which are very much the same. They take the Quran seriously where we don't follow the Bible literally.
For the record...I believe in God but think the Bible is an old interpretation based primarily on life thousands of years ago. The only thing of value, in my opinion, are the teachings of Jesus which don't line up with the violence and craziness of the Old testament.