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MAJ USA RET
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Lets face it
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8/28/2013 10:50:22 AM (updated 8/28/2013 10:51:42 AM)
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Christianity
has a well documented history of barbaric behavior. I’m not hearing any
Christians deny that. The major
accomplishment has been the personalization of the religion… an increasingly
smarter and critical body of adherents.
Christians (and Jews) are able to veto forced conversion, crusades
(jihad by Christians abetted by the church), and cruel enforcement of religious
tenets. The mature religion allows that “coming to God” is a personal decision.
The mature Christian recognizes the evolution of the “Children of God” from the
failed, church imposed, warlike Zionism punctuated by periods of decadence – to the
accommodation of the weaknesses of God’s people through the gift of grace
offered in the New Testament.
Jihad and grace are mutually exclusive. To put it
a more simple context, Christianity has matured into a deserving civility.
Islam has not yet.
In your words, MM, “We need to become energy independent and
let the Middle East return to the 6th century where their ideology and religion
belong.”
Amen to that.
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