(January 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I personally LOL'ed at "I'll personally kill them, God is the greatest." I seem to remember one of the things their god told them not to do was kill. Or maybe those are just guidelines and not actual commandments.
Well Christians did believe that torture was good for the soul. It cleanses you. Relatively speaking the hours and days of extreme unrelenting pain from, say, having all of your bones broken and then having your body woven through a wagon wheel only to then be exposed on a pole for the birds to peck at your slowly dying body was nothing in comparison to an eternity in heaven. And of course if that didn't work to cleanse you then it was a good fear mechanism to keep all the other people in line.
I'm not really sure to whom the "thou shalt not kill" thing really applied.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
