(June 14, 2016 at 8:44 pm)mralstoner Wrote:According to the fairy tale in Revelation the best thing that can happen to a Christian is to get killed for his faith. Then his soul is kept under the altar until the magic number of other Christians have been killed. Jesus won't return until the magic number of Christians have been killed.(June 14, 2016 at 7:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: As a Christian, I'm sure that he has scads of explanations as to why Jesus approved of killing people who didn't accept him, or how Jesus was going to be the most powerful, murderous and oppressive dictator who ever massacred innocents.
Wood is simply a bigot who can't seem to grasp that the actions of a handful of butchering loons are not representative of an entire group.
Boru
True, you can find problems with Jesus, which Christians magically filter out of their brains. But the core religious motivators are (a) the example of your prophet that you are meant to imitate and (b) the conditions for entry into heaven. In this regard, Islam is infinitely more violent than Christianity because (a) Mohammed was infinitely more violent than Jesus and (b) Allah promises heaven for those who die fighting in the cause of Allah.
And these are not a handful of unrepresentative loons, the terrorists have the more credible interpretation of Islamic scripture.
Revelation 6:9-11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...EV;MEV;NET.
So if Christians want Jesus to return they should want to get killed for their faith. Who knows when the magic number will be reached?