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originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: butcherguy
Let's go ahead and read the OT and count how many people God killed or ordered to be killed. But let me guess, that's why the NT was written? So God could correct his mistakes?
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: butcherguy
Let's go ahead and read the OT and count how many people God killed or ordered to be killed. But let me guess, that's why the NT was written? So God could correct his mistakes?
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: butcherguy
Let's go ahead and read the OT and count how many people God killed or ordered to be killed. But let me guess, that's why the NT was written? So God could correct his mistakes?
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Vroomfondel
A whitehouse spokesman saying he wasn't aware that Bush had said those words proves what?
The president described praying as he walked outside the Oval Office after giving the order to begin combat operations against Iraq, and the powerful role his religious beliefs played throughout that time.
"Going into this period, I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will. . . . I'm surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case I pray that I be as good a messenger of His will as possible. And then, of course, I pray for personal strength and for forgiveness."
Bush said he did not remember asking the question of his father, former president George H.W. Bush, who fought Iraq in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But, he added that the two had discussed developments in Iraq.
"You know he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to," Bush said.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
He didn't say he wasn't aware of Bush saying those words, he said they were never said at all.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: 3NL1GHT3N3D1
a reply to: Sargeras
So what does this say about an overwhelmingly Christian country lying to start a war in the Middle East and killing thousands of innocent civilians along the way? What does it say about a military that is 70% Christian fighting these wars based on lies? Does that say the same thing about Christianity as you say ISIS does for Islam? If not, that's called hypocrisy.
I think you missed an important point there.
When terrorists commit these acts they shout "Allahu akbar!" Or something similar. They commit these barbaric acts in the name of and for the glory of allah.
Unless the "overwhelmingly Christian" soldiers you speak of were shouting, "Praise Jesus!" while they fought, I think there is a big difference. Living in a predominantly Christian nation does not mean that everything you do is for the Glory of God. However, the same can not be said of islamic nations. The hypocrisy is comparing the two and calling them equal in nature when clearly they are not.
Except for the fact in almost every Islamic dominated country on earth they treat women as property, stone them for adultery if they get raped burn witches, kill blasphemers , kill homosexuals.... Etc....
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
He didn't say he wasn't aware of Bush saying those words, he said they were never said at all.
Common sense says that he can only talk about what he has heard Bush say.
In that very link you have someone else saying that he did say those words but that they were not taken literally.
Your link doesn't clear anything up.
originally posted by: beansidhe
a reply to: bdjma2020
They did yes, so did the Celts, the Vikings - you name it, they've been pillagers in the past. The protestants slaughtered the catholics - it's never-ending crap fought in the name of a god who doesn't care enough to intervene.
Politics mixed with religion is deadly, I don't care which god they say they pray to. Claiming only Isis members say they're doing it for god, allah, whatever, is simply untrue. There's been as much blood spilt under the name of god as of allah.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
The man who stated that Bush never said those words checked the BBC interview and verified he was correct. Common sense...
You have made up your mind and nothing else matters to you. If you fight for your own perception hard enough you get to keep it. Grats.