Christians celebrate rape, torture, slavery and genocide.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

what about the "Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos" in spain - "festival of moors and christians" - this celibrates the requoncista - which was a brutal 700 years war. or is taht a bit far fetched?

point is, one cant deny horrible things in the bible, but are there christian traditions today which celebrate inhuman historical events? just asking.

Everytime a fundie sees a rainbow, they will give thanks and remember that it is the beauty of Gods promise (they leave off gods promise to what??). Gods promise not to murder nearly every living thing on the planet again!! Well, using a flood anyway. He can do it other ways though (left himself a nice loophole there, lol).

Exactly.

At primary school, I remember being taught the virtues and beauty behind the flood/Noah story, and how great everything is because of it.

In fact, the front cover the 'good news bible' we had at school was the ubiquitous symbol of the dove flying past the rainbow to a beautifully rendered baby blue sky which evoked in me a sense of beauty and peace (I was a child remember).

Looking back as an adult, it becomes pretty clear that the bible and the story it is based on is nothing if not a celebration of god's power and ultimate control over everything he/it oversees, in this case, genocide en masse.

It's pretty clear what the story (and the bible cover) was trying to evoke on our little child minds, and what it was trying to omit (or distort). Who'd have thought that genocide could be so fluffy and innocent?