On 12/7/2014 12:00 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
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PS In short, it's not the religion, it's the evolution of the
practioners and all have fallen short of the glory of God!
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/It would probably take someone in pretty deep cognitive dissonance to
think that Christian practitioners are anything like the Christians
described in the New Testament, Mike./
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*From:* "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] The Christian answer to ISIS and much else
Ummm Empty... ever read the Gita? Same thing. "I come to reward the
rightous and destroy the wicked" and He instructs the devotee not to
be concerned for those that He judges. Now, men doing the same thing,
in the *name* of God, is in itself, wicked because it is purely
political as opposed to God's judgement. You might ask yourself, Why
did the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob judge those groups so harshly
and wanted them destroyed and why everyone? In one case, the king of
Israel granted mercy and spaired some lives,really for
ransom,violating what the prophet had told him. One person that he let
go, gave birth to a group of people, that hundreds of years later,
tried to to exterminate all of the Jews, starting with those in
Persia, read the book of Esther. The Jews were destined to produce the
Kwisatz Haderach, oops... wrong book, I mean the Messiah, who would
bring salvation to the world. Jesus 's *pedigree* goes back to the
Jews in Persia. God judges righously, not men. People do all kinds of
crazy things in the names of their Gods. God is not through with those
that have tried to destroy the Jews in the past. "I will bless those
that bless you and curse those that curse you".
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*From:* "emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] The Christian answer to ISIS and much else
Christians like to tell the rest of us that their religion teaches
peace, love and understanding. They also are fond of saying that the
Bible is the greatest book ever written. Well, folks, they can't have
it both ways. The fact is that the Bible promotes genocide, the
systematic destruction of entire populations of human beings. If
that's Christian compassion, then I'm the Pope.
Don't believe that the Bible teaches genocide? Check out the following
verses, just two of the many from the Bible that suggest that God
himself thinks that genocide is a wonderful idea:
/Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from
before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the
Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, lest
you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are
going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But you shall destroy their
altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
(For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is
Jealous, is a jealous God.)/
Exodus, Chapter 34, verses 11-14
/You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before
you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put
ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before
you. For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply
you and confirm My covenant with you. You shall eat the old harvest,
and clear out the old because of the new./
Leviticus, Chapter 26, verses 7-9
So this is God's love: if he looks favorably upon you, he'll help you
go out and slaughter ten thousand people just because they belong to
another ethic group and are already living on the land you want for
yourself. Furthermore, the Bible says that he wants you to go out and
commit cultural genocide, destroying the religious buildings and holy
objects of rival religions. So come on, Christians! Hop to it! Surely
you believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, don't you?
I'll bet you can find some non-Christian temple and start your pillage
today!
If you think I'm being sarcastic, or am just making an academic point
about a couple of long-forgotten verses that have no connection to the
way that Christianity is practiced today, you're wrong. These biblical
verses, and others like them, have been used by Christians for
thousands of years to justify hundreds, if not thousands, of horrific
acts of genocide. Just in the last couple of years, the Christian
Yugoslav government led by the popular leader Slobodan Milosevic
slaughtered huge numbers of ethnic Albanian Muslims, citing the
Bible's genocidal language as justification.
Now, some peaceable apologetic Christians will argue that Christians
like Milosevic have merely misunderstood the teachings of the Bible.
They'll claim that God required his followers to commit genocidal
atrocities during the time of the Old Testament but that Jesus brought
a New Testament which instead instructs people to turn the other cheek.
First of all, Christian history does not bear this New Testament idea
out. Christian armies never turned the other cheek when they
slaughtered their enemies in the name of God. Church leaders supported
these acts and often led the clamor for holy wars.
Secondly, the New Testament argument destroys the very foundation that
Christianity is built upon. If God is really all-powerful and
all-knowing and all-loving, then he can't possibly have meant to tell
his followers to go out and engage in acts of ethnic cleansing and
then have changed his mind a thousand years or so later. If God really
knows all and can do whatever he wants, why couldn't he have brought
Jesus and the New Testament down earlier and saved the Earth a whole
lot of bloodshed? Waiting around to teach forgiveness after you've
been teaching human slaughter doesn't sound very all-loving to me.
Whichever tack you take, the argument that a New Testament separates
modern Christianity from the atrocities of the Old Testament is a
theologically unsound excuse.
That also goes for the whole rigamarole that Christians go through to
give themselves the title of God's new Chosen People. This old
Christian canard argues that God used to call the Jews his Chosen
People, but the Jews weren't worthy, so since the arrival of Jesus,
the Chosen People are the Christians. Honestly, I don't see what
difference it makes who the Chosen People are -- I don't think that
they ought to have the right to go around and kill people just because
they aren't Chosen. It doesn't matter whether genocide takes place on
the basis of ethnicity or religion. It's still genocide.
Besides, all the Christian protestations about being followers of the
New Testaments and not the Old Testament are shown to be the hollow
excuses they are by the continued use of the Old Testament by
practically every Christian church on the face of the Earth. If
Christianity really repudiates the Old Testament, then why is the Old
Testament still included in the Christian Holy Bible? Why do Christian
priests and preachers still base entire doctrines on Old Testament
Verses? Why do Christian politicians try to get the Ten Commandments
posted in public places? Why do most Christians still circumcize their
little boys if they don't believe in keeping the old covenant with God?
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<http://irregulartimes.com/index.html>Christians accuse New Age
practitioners of taking a buffet approach to religion: just taking
whatever teachings from whatever traditions they like and then
ignoring the ones they don't like. Pardon me, but I don't see how the
Christians are any different. If you're a real, consistent Christian,
you ought to join with other Christians to form a holy army to
massacre as many non-Christians as you can, starting today.
