(January 12, 2015 at 5:13 am)Grasshopper Wrote: I mean you can say anything in my presence because it IS your forum after all. I don't get offended by things anyone says about jesus or god. I'm sure most of you guys are good whether you believe or don't believe.
I was only pissed because someone was comparing Christianity to violent islam. Maybe that's what made me seem angry.
But I'm sorry
Not sure who was calling Christianity violent, could have been me saying that. but without a "quote" kinda hard to discern who said what.
Now instead of getting pissed about someone telling you something you are not used to hearing, why don't you try to understand why we say that.
All the books of Abraham, Hebrew, Islam and Christianity, are full of depictions of violence based on the wishes or actions of that God even if he does not do it himself.
The violent depictions were a reflection of social norms of even polytheism back then. Back then your life depended on supporting the tribe. So the god was reflected as a character just like the kinds feudal society followed back then. Depicted as the hero who saved the day and vanquished the enemy. Humans back then falsely equated fortune as coming from divinity.
And again, Christianity became civil because there were enough people who got tired of the brutality, who cherry picked and watered down the book to justify civility.
But even today in Africa you have "The Lord's Resistance Army". Timothy McVeigh was a Christian. The aborton Dr killers are Chrisitan.
Westboro Baptist Church. And even preachers advocating physical violence
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/09/...ans-video/
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%...=UAQEm1Z6i
Again the book is not Keeping more of the nuts above listed from acting out in violence, our common law is minimizing their ability to act out in violence. But these Christians are getting there morality from the same religion you do, like it or not.
