Can Christianity Create A Terrorist?

Currently, in the context of Islamic acts of terror around the world, it has become popular for some Christians to warn other Christians that, "We have our versions of terrorists, too, remember." But it is impossible for Christianity to produce a terrorist.

Yes, we should not assume that all Muslims personally agree with terrorism, or that they all support physical jihad. A lot of them have taken refuge here in the U.S. to get away from that kind of oppression in their homelands. A lot of Muslims are nominal, or they only follow portions of the Qu'ran. Some Muslim preachers teach that jihad is  a spiritual warfare. Others say it's limited to self-defense against soldiers (such as Muhammad's followers defending themselves from the soldiers of Medina). 

However, the Klu Klux Klan and Westboro Baptist Church are *not* Christian analogies to Muslim terrorists. Not even remotely! The Klan has never been Christian. It has misquoted and twisted God's word for years, to justify a demonic doctrine of white supremacy, but that makes the KKK no better than a cult. The ideas behind the Klan aren't Christian, any more than the doctrinal ideas of Scientology are Christian.

The Westboro Baptist Church is a fraud! They preach a particularly warped version of hyper-Calvinism, which puts them outside the boundary of Christian orthodoxy (including outside the boundaries of normal, historical Calvinism!). They do not preach salvation by grace through faith in Christ, but instead a message of salvation by good works. This latter fact means they aren't even a Christian group, no matter what they claim about themselves! 

More importantly, Jesus is not equivalent to Muhammad. Jesus did not teach us to make war on all who disagree with us. He did not tell us to enslave or kill infidels. Christ did not teach us to conquer the world by force. He did not teach that women are toys. Quite the opposite! When His disciples asked if they should call down fire on a village that rejected them, Jesus rebuked them, and said their spirit was not of God (Luke 9:53-55). He ordered His disciples to be as harmless as doves, as we move about in this non-believing world (Matthew 10:16). He ordered us to love our enemies, and to do good to those who persecute us (Matthew 5:43-45). 

But Mohammed did in fact teach all those things, and those teachings are written in the Qu'ran. So, at the most fundamental level, the level of divine authority, the Bible and the Qu'ran are incompatible. They teach the opposite of each other, on core issues as well as on many, many other issues.

Side-bar: Secularists love to quote from the war passages of the Old Testament, as if this proves that the Bible and the Qu'ran teach the same thing. Doing this shows ignorance. Those commands were God's authorization for a specific people (the Jews under Joshua), to act at a specific time (arrival in the Promised Land), against a specific group (the Amorites/Canaanites), for a specific reason (as God's punishment against the Canaanites for their history of violence, idolatry, and sexual depravity). Then Jesus came and instituted a new covenant with new rules.

It is *impossible* for Christianity to produce a terrorist. A terrorist is in rebellion against Jesus Christ and against His teaching. A terrorist is not just being "immoderate" about Jesus' teaching, he or she is ignoring them and acting against His will.   This is why the exhortation, "Remember we Christians have our own terrorists too" is wrong, at its foundation.