(06-30-2025, 04:11 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-30-2025, 02:13 PM)mikesez Wrote: Belgian actions in the Congo were particularly motivated by a Christian inspired zeal to end the slave trade and spread Christianity to the tribes there.

Skipping to an earlier part of history, the Jacobins and the Bonapartists weren't particularly Christian but they came out of both Christianity and the Enlightenment, causing millions of deaths as their ideas and their armies spread.

Ok, we can't go much further with this, but the theology of the 20th century in the two moderated Abrahamic religions looks nothing like the Islamic faith does now over 100 years later. You're confusing The Enlightenment with being enlightened, I'm not talking about a specific historical period, I'm talking about the moderating of a religion as it matured, which has happened in both the Christian and Jewish faiths but has not in Islam (and likely won't without a stringent external impetus).