Cardinal George Pell.

[fredd bear]

So....you reckon that's not murder?   Some kids just need killin?  

Nah, just apologetics 101.

A common ploy is to wilfully misinterpret  scripture ,when it contradicts dogma.

This peanut is an amateur.   Try having an argument with a Jesuit or Passionist  theologian.

EG Once spent an interesting evening with a Catholic apologist arguing that the word "usury" means "giving loans at unreasonable interest" and always has. That's actually a bare faced lie. 'Usury' actually means lending money at ANY interest". Something Muslims fully understand; to lend money at interest is haram . (Muslims banks make "service charges ' instead, and pay no interest on deposits.)

This simple concept is closely linked with over 1000 years of European antisemitism.   Some semantics are important.

A much bigger example of willful   misinterpretation  is from the Gospel of Matthew where  Jesus says he has not come to change the law by "a jot or a tittle"(English translation)--before you know it, Paul has abolished all of Mosaic law dealing with ritual.

The claim that Jesus met prophesy for the Messiah  is another barefaced lie. ---check Jewish sources, after all, he's their Moshiach.(messiah)
 

Matthew 5:18

(King James Bible) "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

Generally speaking protestant apologists aren't a patch on the Catholics. This is because the proddies tend to be weak in theology, but mainly because the Catholics had over 1000 years head start. 


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I find our Muslim  member's  bigotry against Christian morality quite hilarious: Christian morality comes from the Torah.  Sharai law is based on Mosiac law, and great a chunks of the Quran have been lifted from the Torah   These claims make your common or garden variety Muslim bigot apoplectic  , even though they can be easily verified by reading the Quran and Torah together. 

 I needed to read the Quran at university as part of a course. One of the first things I noticed was the similarity of some passages with the Torah