Well, it is quite simple really.

Jews do not believe Christians worship the same God.

And from what I know of the Muslim religion --- their God is nothing like the Christian God.

They say it is --- doesn't make it so...

Because there are very specific beliefs all Christians hold as Truth. If you disagree with one of these truths then you are not a Christian.

Calling yourself a Christian in those circumstances is akin to me saying I represent women even though I have no clue what giving birth will ever be like.

I am not a woman - obviously - if you aren't a Christian - you have no right to call yourself a Christian.

He can believe whatever he wants. But if he doesn't accept the fundamental truths of Christianity, he should not claim to be Christian. Because in truth, he is not until he does.

I still have a hard time understanding how people can seriously today say Christians are the same or worse than Muslims. That is like saying night is day because the moon cast light as well...

Christianity did not call for the slaughter of anyone.

I don't know why this is so hard to understand. There is nothing in anything Jesus has ever said that could be interpreted as violence towards nonbelievers. The same cannot be said of Muhammad.

As for Hitler draw your own conclusions:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_religious_views

In public statements, especially at the beginning of his rule, Hitler frequently spoke positively about the Christian German culture, and his belief in the "Aryan" Christ. In a proclamation to the German Nation February 1, 1933 Hitler stated, "The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."[7]

Historian Joachim Fest wrote, "Hitler knew, through the constant invocation of the God the Lord (German: Herrgott) or of providence (German: Vorsehung), to make the impression of a godly way of thought."[8] He used his "ability to simulate, even to potentially critical Church leaders, an image of a leader keen to uphold and protect Christianity," according to biographer Ian Kershaw. Kershaw adds that Hitler's ability also succeeded in appeasing possible Church resistance to anti-Christian Nazi Party radicals.[9] For example, on March 23, 1933, he addressed the Reichstag: "The National Government regards the two Christian confessions (i.e. Catholicism and Protestantism) as factors essential to the soul of the German people. ... We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most of the German people."[10]

According to Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer, Hitler remained a formal member of the Catholic Church until his death, although it was Speer's opinion that "he had no real attachment to it."[11] According to biographer John Toland, Hitler was still "a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite his detestation of its hierarchy, he carried within himself its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God — so long as it was done impersonally, without cruelty."[12] However, Hitler's own words from Mein Kampf seem to conflict with the idea that his antisemitism was religiously motivated. From childhood onward, Hitler seems to have continued to reject antisemitism or anti-Judaism based on religious arguments like the deicide claim:

There were very few Jews in Linz. In the course of centuries the Jews who lived there had become Europeanized in external appearance and were so much like other human beings that I even looked upon them as Germans. The reason why I did not then perceive the absurdity of such an illusion was that the only external mark which I recognized as distinguishing them from us was the practice of their strange religion. As I thought that they were persecuted on account of their Faith my aversion to hearing remarks against them grew almost into a feeling of abhorrence. I did not in the least suspect that there could be such a thing as a systematic anti-Semitism.

Then I came to Vienna.

Confused by the mass of impressions I received from the architectural surroundings and depressed by my own troubles, I did not at first distinguish between the different social strata of which the population of that mammoth city was composed. Although Vienna then had about two hundred thousand Jews among its population of two millions, I did not notice them. During the first weeks of my sojourn my eyes and my mind were unable to cope with the onrush of new ideas and values. Not until I gradually settled down to my surroundings, and the confused picture began to grow clearer, did I acquire a more discriminating view of my new world. And with that I came up against the Jewish problem.

I will not say that the manner in which I first became acquainted with it was particularly unpleasant for me. In the Jew I still saw only a man who was of a different religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I was against the idea that he should be attacked because he had a different faith. And so I considered that the tone adopted by the anti-Semitic Press in Vienna was unworthy of the cultural traditions of a great people. The memory of certain events which happened in the Middle Ages came into my mind, and I felt that I should not like to see them repeated....[13]

According to historian Richard Steigmann-Gall, much is known about Hitler's views on religion through Hitler's book, Mein Kampf.[14] In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote neither as an atheist, an agnostic, nor as a believer in a remote, rationalist divinity. Instead he expressed his belief in one providential, active, deity:

"What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and the reproduction of our race...so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe...Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence."[14]

In an attempt to justify Nazi intolerance he recommends militantism, which he associates with Christianity's rise to Roman state religion, as a model for the Nazis in their pursuit of power, while simultaneously lamenting the demise of Pre-Christian Roman Religion,

The individual may establish with pain today that with the appearance of Christianity the first spiritual terror entered into the far freer ancient world, but he will not be able to contest the fact that since then the world has been afflicted and dominated by this coercion, and that coercion is broken only by coercion, and terror only by terror. Only then can a new state of affairs be constructively created. Political parties are inclined to compromises; philosophies never. Political parties even reckon with opponents; philosophies proclaim their infallibility. [15]

Elsewhere in Mein Kampf Hitler speaks of the "creator of the universe" and "eternal Providence." He also states his belief that the Aryan race was created by God, and that it would be a sin to dilute it through racial intermixing. Hitler writes:

The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.[16]

According to Steigmann-Gall, Hitler's reference to God as the "Lord of Creation" and the necessity of obeying "His will" along with several references to Jesus, reveals the infusion of Christianity into his thinking. Other sources also show Hitler's Christian thinking, according to Steigmann-Gall. He notes an unpublished manuscript where Hitler sketched out his world-view with similar Christian references, and he gives as an example a speech on April 1922 where Hitler said that Jesus was "the true God." Finally, Steigmann-Gall gives another example where in a private Nazi meeting Hitler again stated the centrality of Jesus' teachings to the Nazi movement.[17]

Derek Hastings sees Hitler's commitment to Christianity as more tenuous. He considers it "eminently plausible" that Hitler was a believing Catholic as late as his trial in 1924, but writes that "there is little doubt that Hitler was a staunch opponent of Christianity throughout the duration of the Third Reich." [18]

I must respectfully disagree with you.

They are not the same...

Ok,

How about we just cull out the really antisocial aspects of it? I can live with that!

I don't advocate the disappearance of them.

I advocate the end of their religion. That can happen without them going anywhere.

Similar to Funches trying to dissuade all from Christianity.

If I am guilty of the things Funches says - He is guilty of the same things towards Christians.

I don't know how many times I have to say this...

I don't hate Muslims.

I see the truth of their religion - note: NOT beliefs as everyone's personal belief is different.

The truth I see is that Muhammad told his followers to convert at the tip of a sword and he lead an army that did just that. Convert or we kill you...

That isn't hate. That is pointing out what their religion says. Just as you think you are pointing out the failures in Christianity...

Do you hate Christians???? If you can honestly say no, then you understand how I feel about Muslims...

I am really heart broken right now.

Just dropped my son off with his mom.

Won't see him for another week...

Dresses as a nun on Sunday to get a discount

Her dancing shoes are combat boots!

Shhhhh you're giving away our secrets!

Wears my boxers when she dresses up for the evening.

It is your life but more impotently your soul.

I believe you already know what you should do.

Sounds like you are looking for someone to tell you it is ok to do what you know you should not. If not, why did you ask the question?

Everyone gave you their beliefs on here. You haven't heard what you wanted yet and are looking for a loophole somewhere.

All I can say is, it is your life to live. You are the only one that has to live with your choices, both in this world and the next.

You are asking for permission to openly sin as a preacher of God's Word. That would be like a married Pastor openly having sex with another married woman and asking for everyone to accept it because they are in love.

"Don't criticize me for doing what I am. Oh, and listen to what I preach because I know the way to God."

If you can't see why that doesn't work as a Pastor ...

Taking a Dr. Who break.

Currently: Phineas and Ferb.

Wishes to have a spell cast on her.

Ah yes,

But drama can add a lot of spice when the story emerges in it's propped form.

Dr. Who
Season 2. Season 3 coming up.

My son and I are having DVD marathon.

I thought about working out once - got tired - stopped thinking about it...

essence of pearl

Cumbersome