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If They Keep This Up
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 (December 4, 2015 at 12:39 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(December 3, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: A good question to ask the Holy Inquisition. Or maybe this guy ![[Image: hchurch.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.tenc.net%2Fvatican%2Fhchurch.jpg) image of Hitler coming out of church We all know what he learned from his ventures of praying in Church to Jesus and learning about his teachings especially on how to treat Jews
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (December 3, 2015 at 3:41 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 3, 2015 at 3:34 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Don't worry - when Hillary becomes the President of USA, she will put a stop to all this gun violence be cracking down on video games... Good point. I watched a lot of Road Runner cartoons as a kid, and yet I've managed to reach the age of 45 without dropping an anvil on a coyote. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(December 4, 2015 at 2:28 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(December 4, 2015 at 12:39 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Or the crusaders... Yeah, not so much, since the Crusades were largely failures, both political and military. A better assessment might be, 'If it weren't for Charles Martel, you'd have a better chance of being a Muslim.' Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 RE: If They Keep This Up
December 4, 2015 at 4:59 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 5:00 am by Alex K.)
Who knows what it would have done to mainstream Islam if it had been institutionalized in Europe back in that day! Maybe it would have been flattened by the Enlightenment nonetheless.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (December 4, 2015 at 4:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 4, 2015 at 2:28 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If it hadn't been for the Crusaders you would be a muslim. Kudos to Ferdinand & Isabella as well.  RE: If They Keep This Up
December 4, 2015 at 10:18 pm
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(December 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Lek Wrote: If everyone followed Christs's teachings what would cause them to kill a bunch of people? The same exact things that caused christians to massacre millions of people over the past few millennia. Like Mat 10:34. Quote:34"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35"For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;… You can read Christ's teachings however you please, because they're written in dead languages and are mainly meaningless platitudes, intended for goat-f*cking barbarians - if you don't like what they say, you just find a different translation, interpretation, or "read between the lines". Religion is nothing more than self-serving bullsh*t - people who don't want to kill, claim that bible tells them so; people who do want to kill claim the bible tells them so. How about people, who already are following the teachings of Jebus stop fighting between themselves first, before you start making idiotic, self-righteous statements about how christians don't kill people, huh? And hey - if EVERYONE bent over and followed the teachings of Islam, what reasons would people have to kill each other? If there were no infidels and nobody would break sharia law - everyone would surely live happily ever after, right? No? Why not?...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
(December 4, 2015 at 10:18 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:It doesn't matter which system is used as long as everyone follows it without exception. The problems happen when people get competing ideas and desires.(December 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Lek Wrote: If everyone followed Christs's teachings what would cause them to kill a bunch of people?  ![[Image: mike_luckovich_mike_luckovich_for_12032015_5_.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.realclearpolitics.com%2Fcartoons%2Fimages%2F2015%2F12%2F03%2Fmike_luckovich_mike_luckovich_for_12032015_5_.jpg)
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