lol we've esatblished this have we?
obviously not, considering you obviously believe the peaceful teachings of jesus are synonymous with war and destruction. if you were talking about islam then yeah okay, i'd understand. but come on,
Jesus taught that everyone is a wretched, sinning creature, created that way by God and that one must feel bad for the way that you were created by your loving master or fear the fires of death. Not only that, but this very same God had facilitated the bloody ethnic cleansing, butchery and genocide of many thousands of people not even 1000 years earlier.
Jesus taught that slaves who tried to escape their master were being ungodly, and Paul wrote that slaves should feel happy to be enslaved to a Christian master, as they are bringing about the work of the Lord.
You can't just cherry pick the nice things that Jesus says, which happen to be almost exclusively unoriginal and fairly generic, and ignore all the filthy violence; that's called hypocrisy.
0bs3n3 said:
Well said. Jesus says that he has not come to abolish the old laws, and that it is easier for the heaven to fall from the sky than for one letter of the old laws to become invalid, and these laws include things such as:
- All homosexuals should be killed.
- Anyone worshipping another deity within your nation must be killed.
- A woman raped inside a city should be killed for not screaming for help loud enough.
- That when you take prisoners of war, you should kill the entire male population and take the women as slaves.
- If anyone in a town that you know of is preaching of a religion different to yours, you should invade the town, kill everyone in it, raze it to the ground and ensure it is never rebuilt.
- That God shall lay all the curses of heaven and earth, and smite his record and name for eternity, on anyone who thinks they will live a well enough life if they just follow their own moral compass.
Both Jesus himself and the early theology of the New Testament make it clear that they have not come to abolish these laws, and even if they had it is still absolutely ghastly that any 'loving' God would prescribe such things and demand that his followers enact them.