yeah you forgot the fact that such behavior doesn't continue today
But the fact that it
did exist is what we're talking about. People were making the same arguments that you are right now, but against Catholics and the Pope during the Crusades. In retrospect, we realize that it's stupid to blame Catholics for violence when their religion wasn't the ultimate cause, but you seem to be unable to extrapolate that logic to the modern age.
again, isolated incidents, and the difference is that the teachings of christianity do not condone such violent behavior
I mean, neither does the Quran in the way that CIA commits violence. Both the Quran and Bible have plenty of verses about stoning certain people for certain behavior, and, given the need for some kind of violent insurgency, extremists have occasionally exploited both texts as a reason to mobilize violence against other people.
islam has not really had any defining reformation, and any splinter groups that claim to be originalists are even more violent and antagonistic than the sunni mainstream they split from
Arguably most modern religions reflect 'reformation' from a pre-existing faith. The way new religions are created is that a reasonably-sized sect of believers decide to separate, and then their independent beliefs evolve into a distinct faith. Same reason why a bunch of Middle-Eastern Jews turned into Christians.
the iranian revolution was a massive step forward in social progress
Remember the time when US Democratic nation-builders had a democratically-elected leader overthrown and imprisoned in Iran, only to install a literal dictator?
