"monkfish" <monkfish@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> default wrote:
>
>> That's the danger of "faith," or benign faith - just stay disconnected
>> and let an organization tell you what to think and what to do - you
>> aren't capable or charged with that task or whatever. The "we know
>> what is best for you" mind set.
>> Then we have the not so benign faithful - the Fallwell Robertson
>> Sharon Abas Muhammed Bush Ratsinger variety - the people telling us
>> what to do, think,say, the leaders and the millions of their
>> self-righteous, vocal brethren. The idiots that actually believe god
>> is telling them what is right for humans - all the while saying we
>> have free will, paying lip service to constitutions and democracies in
>> the process.
>> Net effect: Religion is a very very bad and stupid in my opinion.
>> Nukes in the hands of children.
>> Bad too when we can watch what they do, and hear what they say, yet
>> because they are somehow above us (the priests politicians etc) we
>> never think we can speak up, and if we do we are told that our
>> opinions don't matter - they know what god wants, or they are imbued
>> with wisdom beyond mere mortals.
>> Religion sucks - there's a reason Christians consider god's children
>> sheep. They are spineless cowards.
>
> Believe it or not, I agree with you.
> But you are confusing the established religion with God.
> If you get to know God better,
> you would understand what went wrong better
> and what we have to do to correct it.
> Do you have any idea what God is?
>
"God's children are spineless cowards"? Default, you sound like a
gun-totin' goon. To end the cycle of violence we need more of God's
children
and less of your kind. See below
Pastor Frank
The most important, yet most ignored commandments of Christ, which
would
make war, if not ALL of man's inhumanity to man extinct, nay totally
unthinkable:
THE ROYAL LAW OF CHRIST
**Jesus in Mk 12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength: this is the first commandment.
**31: And the second is alike, namely this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
**Jesus in Mat 22:40 "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments."
THE GOLDEN RULE OF CHRIST, or Ethic of Reciprocity
Jesus in Matt. 7:12: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that
men
should do to you, do ye even so to them...."
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