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Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by RicoMarston
if you add the death tolls up from all of those various slaughters, that's how many people christians have killed?
No.
The statement was that Christianity has murdered the most people on the planet.
I gave a very brief list of other things that people have been involved in that have
murdered more people than Christianity has. Each one of those things I listed
have very high murders/homicides associated with them. And it's not a
complete list. Not even close.
Originally posted by CaptainLJB
Just get me the hell out of this country!
It's not safe being an Atheist here anymore.
(Maybe a Zombie Invasion wouldn't have been such a bad idea after all! At least they're legally dead from the neck up and keep their rotting mouths shut!).
edit on 5-6-2012 by CaptainLJB because: Captain's Log, Supplemental...
Originally posted by freedomguy
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Just so as you know that it isn't just the moslems that are dangerous!
Please give me a break, do we have to run through the numbers? I am sick and tired of these kinds of posts that try and paint a bad picture of X religion, while saying "Look, see muslims aren't so bad!". The fact of the matter is, yes they are public enemy #1 until they stop with their jihad machine to take over the world.
Religion in general is holding back the human race and has been the source of suffering throughout the ages.
Aloysius the Gaul
it is not the NWO that is gearing up for a civil war - it is these so-called christians
"Hitler was christian..."
Expat888
no surprise there ... christianity always has been and always will be the biggest cause of murder on the planet
CaptainLJB
Atheists and Agnostics who've never killed in the name of a non-god.
"...secular ideologies were responsible for the murder of 100 million innocent people during the last century
Source
The Big Lie is a technique that Adolf Hitler used with great success. The idea is that you just keep repeating the same lie over and over, in spite of all arguments or evidence to the contrary, until people believe it. Massive repetition is essential.
"Tell a lie enough times and it will become the truth."
— Heinrich Himmler
Nobody has died because of religion. When people "kill in the name of religion," they're actually going against what religion teaches.
A man could claim to be killing in the name of Mickey Mouse -- but that is a bad reflection on the man, not on Mickey Mouse.
Atheist Communist regimes, meanwhile, have killed over 100 million of their own people (and that's a conservative number) in just the last 100 years.
They didn't do it in the name of atheism, precisely, but their killing is not going against what atheism teaches. Because atheism, in essence, teaches nothing. Whenever atheism has been installed as the Official State Religion, the state in question has always given itself permission to do unspeakable things. Always.
When God is not, as Dostoyevsky wrote, anything is permitted.
Link
Atheists kill people in such vastly greater numbers than any religion EVER
"And the much greater persecution of priests and believers
in 20th Century Atheist tyrannies clearly demonstrates
the murderous anti-theism of Atheists."
"Then you explain why they kill people in such vastly greater numbers
than any religion EVER HAS in all of history!?"
• Russian Civil War (1917-22): 7 to 10 million
• Soviet Union, Stalin's regime (1924-53): 20 million
• People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong's regime (1949-1975): 44 to 72 million
Source
“We do not fight against believers and not even clergymen. WE FIGHT AGAINST GOD to snatch
believers from Him.” - Vechernaia Moskva, a Soviet newspaper
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Every so often some poster here spouts this nonsense. Killing in the name of Christianity definately is NOT 'the biggest cause of murder on the planet'. That's absurd.
The Big Lie is a technique that Adolf Hitler used with great success.
"Tell a lie enough times and it will become the truth."
— Heinrich Himmler
Originally posted by Expat888
no surprise there ... christianity always has been and always will be the biggest cause of murder on the planet ... world would be far better off without christians and their bloodthirsty , barbaric , intolerant primitive superstition that only brings death ....
Originally posted by SrWingCommander
I am going to post briefly becuase I addressed alot of this in the other thread.
I am indirectly associated with "the good news club". By that I mean that my church sponsers a group at the local school. My kids attend. The instructor is the mom of my kids best friend and our churches youth pastor. It is after school like other clubs. It is volunteer, and it is mostly the kids that go to the church anyways.
I asked her about if next year's lesson was going to include the story of Saul and the Amekulites. She did not know as the cirriculum is not out yet. She said she would be surprised if it was, because most of the good news club is based on new testement/words of Christ. You know, horrible stuff like, "feeding the poor", "love your neighbors", "don't steal". Stuff like that.
Lesson 2 - Saul's Disobedience (1 Sam. 12:1-25; 13:1-14; 15:1-35)
.............. Teaching Statement: God will help you obey!
.............. Memory verse: James 4:17
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by CaptainLJB
Dang, why so hostile?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
The same old blame the Christians or Muslims for the actions of individuals or fringe groups bigotry we see every day here.
That opinion bit in another countries newspaper fails to mention that these are extracurricular and the kids attend only if their parents wish them too.
Just another attack from bigots who distort facts, nothing more.
Originally posted by DJW001
Everyone seems to be missing the most relevant point: why is this group ("True Christians"or not) using a public school for their "educational program?" Are there no churches in town willing to host them? Are they paying the school for their use of taxpayer supported facilities... custodial services, electricity, heating, etc? The entire thing appears to be intended as an act of provocation to force their agenda onto the public stage. More "culture wars" posturing.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
Originally posted by DJW001
Everyone seems to be missing the most relevant point: why is this group ("True Christians"or not) using a public school for their "educational program?" Are there no churches in town willing to host them? Are they paying the school for their use of taxpayer supported facilities... custodial services, electricity, heating, etc? The entire thing appears to be intended as an act of provocation to force their agenda onto the public stage. More "culture wars" posturing.
The schools charge rent to use the facilities. I've rented them before. It does not interfere with the school in any way. The only reason to stop them is you want to deny them Free Speech.
To me those who would censor them are actually worse than they are.
If an Atheist or Marxist group rented a room for meetings, it would not even make the Press and we would not be discussing it here.