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Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
So we have praise of Authoritarianism and "Might makes right "mixed with the lie "You're demanding things from god" topped with "The mass extermination of a people is cool if they were jerks"
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
If tomorrow Ukrainians killed all the Russians it would no more justified then the above mass killing.
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
Quote:what do you do to a hostile foreign force that has spent centuries murdering you, robbing from you, stealing your women as sex slaves and children as sacrifices? 
You don't utterly wipe them out  because none of the above justifies such a response
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
(December 11, 2024 at 9:36 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:
(December 11, 2024 at 7:33 pm)Sheldon Wrote: Shouldn't you all be just turning the other cheek?

Not at all - neither the Old Testament (quite obviously) nor New Testament ever advocates for allowing evil free reign to do whatever it desires - that is infact a very counter-intuitive expectation.

Isaiah 45:7:

'I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.'

According to the Old Testament, then, evil is a creation of God. Therefore, not 'allowing evil free reign to do whatever it desires' would be an attempt to pervert one of God's creations, a clear act of blasphemy.

It really doesn't seem as if you've read the Bible at all.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
God the interesting condition of having supposedly created everything but is at the same time not responsible for anything bad.
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
(December 12, 2024 at 6:30 am)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: God the interesting condition of having supposedly created everything but is at the same time not responsible for anything bad.

Yet paradoxically gets praised for happenstance events, you have to laugh, talk about selection bias, it's so obviously an irrational post hoc ergo propter rationalisation. He'll be telling us atheists are the embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect again soon, the irony was almost painful. I'd bet what little I have left after my divorce, that someone aimed the accusation at him at some point, and it's another of his schoolyard reversal in the form of "no, you are", after he Googled it of course.
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
(December 12, 2024 at 6:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(December 11, 2024 at 9:36 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Not at all - neither the Old Testament (quite obviously) nor New Testament ever advocates for allowing evil free reign to do whatever it desires - that is infact a very counter-intuitive expectation.

Isaiah 45:7:

'I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.'

According to the Old Testament, then, evil is a creation of God. Therefore, not 'allowing evil free reign to do whatever it desires' would be an attempt to pervert one of God's creations, a clear act of blasphemy.

It really doesn't seem as if you've read the Bible at all.

Boru

I wonder if this deity creates our perception of evil as well? It is after all a subjective idea, and relative, as are all moral claims. So when I see theists like @TheWhiteMarten espouse what I subjectively perceive as immoral hate speech and bigotry, it's his own deity creating my subjective perception of that as "evil" or "immoral", well who could have guessed that in a million years. I feel like a puppet being controlled, so much for free will...
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
(December 11, 2024 at 9:39 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(December 11, 2024 at 9:36 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Not at all - neither the Old Testament (quite obviously) nor New Testament ever advocates for allowing evil free reign to do whatever it desires - that is infact a very counter-intuitive expectation.

Perhaps you should read The Sermon on the Mount.  I am sure you can Google it.
There's no guns mun, what would be the point. Blessed are the poor ffs, @TheWhiteMarten would have a fit at this Jesus bloke talking such bollocks.
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
(December 11, 2024 at 9:33 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:
(December 11, 2024 at 7:41 pm)Sheldon Wrote: Have you actually read the bible? Another irony overload, please do keep these comedy gold moments coming.

what do you do to a hostile foreign force that has spent centuries murdering you, 
Impossible, I can only be murdered the once. Oh sorry, did you mean they were inept, or I was particularly adept at evading them, thus it took a century to murder me? If so the answer is nothing, as I'd be dead, obviously.
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RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
Quote:what do you do to a hostile foreign force that has spent centuries murdering you, 
Step 1 "Don't engage in mass murder
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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