Christianity tends to gloss over the Old Testament, because that's kind of what Jesus did. Sure, he said he was upholding the prophets, but he wasn't a big fan of stoning. "Judge not lest ye be judged," that whole thing. I haven't read the Quran, but I guess it's more in Old Testament territory. I think if you follow what Jesus did and said, you'd be a pretty upstanding person even by modern standards. Maybe the same isn't true for the Quran, and if that's the case it should be said. At the same time antagonizing people is just fighting fire with fire, which has always been rather pointless.
But if there's one thing history has taught us, it's that people like to burn things. They don't really need a good reason.
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