And you thought witch burning was a thing of the past? - Page 8 - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

bg85 · #**106** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by countryboy

Wow, what a brilliant, well thought out response.

Care to elaborate?

nothing to elaborate on. just because you believe your christianity is the correct christianity or that someone else's christianity is the wrong christianity doesn't make you right.

Andrewl · #**107** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by countryboy

That's my point, you are so obsessed with bashing Christians, you saw fit to start a thread about it.

A thread created on modern day witch burning in the appropriate category deserves to be created. It's not my problem you are so defensive about it.

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By definition? WTF? Could you please elaborate?

Evangelicalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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News flash: Just because someone claims to be a Christian, does not necessarily make it so.

Yes it does.

Andrew

daddio · #**108** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by bg85

actually, yes, it does.

yes and no.

you cannot judge that they are not, only God can.

Andrewl · #**109** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by daddio

yes and no.

you cannot judge that they are not, only God can.

So effectively, yes.

Andrew

bg85 · #**110** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by daddio

yes and no.

you cannot judge that they are not, only God can.

lol. exactly.

fishjoel · #**111** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Disillusioned_1

Oh I see, you're probably one of those types that believes how murderous the Koran is, but conveniently ignores the murderous nature of the bible because you're too highly socially evolved.

The bible is the document primarily behind the christian faith. The bible says to kill witches. Sorry, you can try to try to be elitist and argue your way out of it, but as long as people are capable of reading, they can read for themselves that the bible commands people to kill witches. Things were so much simpler when only the clergy could read I guess.

Your ignorance of the doctrines of Christianity is so large, it's like a billboard. You simply have no clue what you are talking about.

Are Christians commanded to sacrifice animals in a temple? Are Christians commanded to wear clothes made of only one type of fabric? Do Christians have a specific diet they have to follow?

Simple fact is you are unable, through your own ignorance, to distinguish between Judaism and Christianity.

fishjoel · #**112** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely

It is interesting how Christians are perfectly willing to accept responsibility within the Old Testament for things they like and make them look good but claim it is irrelevant when something in it makes them look bad.

Christians for centuries were perfectly happy to claim that section of the bible and went on campaigns to rid the world of witches but suddenly the "evolved Christians" don't want to claim it. For the record, I know plenty of Christians in the area where I live who would be just as happy to follow that statement against witches to the same degree they follow other statements about homosexuality.

Complete and utter shallow understanding and a lack of acknowledging how things can be used. Could I say that scientist are evil psychopaths because they created the atomic bomb? Your correlation simply falls flat.

Do you know what Christianity is based on? I mean, it's fairly self-evident. It's based on Christ/Jesus. What, from the records of Jesus' life and teachings, would lead you to believe that Jesus would condone the Crusades?

Simply infantile.

Porras · #**113** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely

For the record, I know plenty of Christians in the area where I live who would be just as happy to follow that statement against witches to the same degree they follow other statements about homosexuality.

So they'd deny them the right to marry? "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties," seems pretty direct to me, more so than "shall not suffer a witch to live." I don't see many out there exterminating the gay community.

SArrow · #**114** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Andrewl

Likewise, your cherry picking of one single statement while ignoring the contents of the article does not prove a lack of causation.

Andrew

Lame, perhaps even dishonest. Fact is, I didn't cherry pick a thing from any article. I quoted your entire post:

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Originally Posted by Andrewl

As evangelical Christianity has grown in Africa so has witch burning.

Andrew

Correlation does not equal causation. Deal with it.

panteth4H2o · #**115** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

Saw the vids. Pretty bad. Lots of hatred. But it wouldn't suprise me if, based on that, people look for a reason to kill others.

CDavidNeely · #**116** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by fishjoel

Do you know what Christianity is based on? I mean, it's fairly self-evident. It's based on Christ/Jesus. What, from the records of Jesus' life and teachings, would lead you to believe that Jesus would condone the Crusades?

Simply infantile.

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"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB)

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" 49 I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism* to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! 51 Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; 52 for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father* against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. (Luke 12:49-53)

If you say so.

CDavidNeely · #**117** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by Porras

So they'd deny them the right to marry? "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties," seems pretty direct to me, more so than "shall not suffer a witch to live." I don't see many out there exterminating the gay community.

Take a visit to a Southern Baptist church in Upper East Tennessee and ask them what god wants them to do about homosexuals. If the law would allow them they would have no problem slaying them by the hundreds. There are constant attacks against gay people here. Some of them even make the paper. Sorry but if the fundamentalist Christians got the theocracy they want the rules in Islamic countries would be nothing in comparison.

fishjoel · #**118** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely

If you say so.

I do. You obviously have no understanding of what those quotes mean.

countryboy · #**119** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by CDavidNeely

Take a visit to a Southern Baptist church in Upper East Tennessee and ask them what god wants them to do about homosexuals. If the law would allow them they would have no problem slaying them by the hundreds. There are constant attacks against gay people here. Some of them even make the paper. Sorry but if the fundamentalist Christians got the theocracy they want the rules in Islamic countries would be nothing in comparison.

In a word, bullshit.

Got any evidence of this whatsoever?

Vincent. · #**120** (**permalink**) 2 Weeks Ago

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Originally Posted by fishjoel

I do. You obviously have no understanding of what those quotes mean.

I don't. But are you suggesting they mean something else then that Jesus will split up families? That's what I'm reading, several times in the same sentence.

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