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Originally posted by SS,Naga
Indians? Heck, the good christians brought them peace & love, ya all know that.
First, they killed over a million of the unrestrainable ones; then they confiscated all their land (except a few tiny patches called reservations), then they outlawed their true religious belief/practices: Sun worship (this, in the land they declared 'freedom of religion').
Originally posted by Simplynoone
All I hear is how God shouldnt do this ..or hasnt done that etc ..I hear nothing about HOW WE CAN FIX any of this mess we find ourselves in .....
I want to hear what YOU would do if you were him ..thats all ...........
[edit on 5-12-2008 by Simplynoone]
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins.
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Mao killed over 60 million
Stalin over 40 million
Hitler over 25 million
So much for your whole thread huh?
Originally posted by karl 12
if a person wants the bible to be taken literaly,then I think the above description of the book's main protagonist is a brutaly honest,inescapable conclusion.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7)
"The bible is a blueprint of in-group morality,complete with instructions for genocide,enslavement of out groups,and world domination.
But the bible is not evil by virtue of its objectives or even its glorification of murder,cruelty and rape.
Many ancient works do that-the Iliad, the Icelandic sagas, the tales of the ancient Syrians and the inscriptions of the ancient Mayans,for example.
But noone is selling the Iliad as a foundation for morality.
Therein lies the problem."
Originally posted by theindependentjournal
reply to post by karl 12
Mao killed over 60 million
Stalin over 40 million
Hitler over 25 million
So much for your whole thread huh?
Originally posted by nj2day
Mao killed over 60 million
Stalin over 40 million
Hitler over 25 million