reply to post by Sundancer
In an ideal world, my friend, ALL people would stand up against atrocities.
It's strange, but a few months ago, I read an article about a guy being 'sought for questioning' in a case involving the abuse of a child and the
neighborhood he lived in tracked him down and lynched him. Beat the snot out of a guy that hadn't even been accused of anything, just 'wanted for
questioning.'
Another case where a person had abused a CAT. They had to leave their home and seek out police protection because they feared for their lives from the
retaliation of their neighbors.
People have a tremendous potential for good, but I fear they also have a greater potential to 'stay out of it,' when the ass that's getting kicked,
or the town that's being bombed is not their own.
I don't like it, I just see it, and yes, being a human, I often have the same failing.
I don't pretend to uphold the tenets of ANY organized religion, but you are right in that if a person follows Christian principles, which ironically
are similar to Islam and others, they would seek peace and not laud the loss of life and destruction of countries. Though early teachings of
Christianity were just as wrought with intolerance and bias as some other religions are now, Christians are supposedly living under the instruction of
a New Testament from their savior that tells us to 'love one another as he has loved us.'
Christ took WITH him, to paradise, as the story goes, a convicted thief that hung on a cross next to him.
Somehow, something got skewed somewhere and I think humanity did it. Somewhere it became ok to do whatever you like as long as you ask forgiveness,
tithe, confess it, or do it in the 'name' of you god.
An old saying, I don't know where it came from... "If god is FOR us, then who could be AGAINST us?"
Many will not be willing to dig deeper into Christianity to swim in the blood that the religion is based on. When you have bias based on ignorance,
justification comes easy.
"spare the rod, spoil the child." is a fundamentalist excuse to beat their child. Of course, shepherds didn't use their rod for beating their
sheep, they used it to guide them.
When you can twist your 'holy' words to justify your actions, then murder becomes easier.
