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On the other hand, people following Jesus' teachings have spent their lives serving others across the world, feeding, clothing, making wells, homes, etc. giving of their resources.
What other religion can come even close to showing their fellow man the love and care that christians have over the centuries?
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*Blinks* Islam. Islam teaches charitable concern for others. Islamic charities fund schemes to help some of the poorest and most troubled communities in the world. Islamic charity workers risk their health and safety to ensure help gets to earthquake victims, and cross battle lines to give help to injured civilians (the Red Crescent). Islamic charities feed some of the poorest and most troubled communities on the planet.
And, much of that good work conducted by Christians over the centuries, has been an act of imperial and religious domination. Missionaries, whilst well-meaning and probably helpful to some communities, gave their help at a heavy cultural price. Christians have caused misery and distress, bloodshed and horror and the cultural and emotional dislocation of whole peoples. Christian thinkers have used their faith to justify slavery and war, political and intellectual repression, gender and racial hierarachies, and from the 18th century onwards, the right and insurmountability of capital.
Christians are people. Moslems are people. Both of these faiths have encouraged people to do wonderful and humantitarian acts and both have led to appalling acts of violence (literal and cultural).