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!
From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 9:54 AM
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 theKwisatz 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".
From: "emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 9:05 AM
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?
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.
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