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Originally Posted by Platinum Lantern
Think about this, in relation to the war in Iraq:
This by no means me attempting to down today's version of Christianity entirely.
BIBLE:
"And the Lord said, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
9:6 Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the elderly men who [were] before the house.
9:7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Ezek. 9:5-7
Qur'an:
[60:8]
"GOD does not enjoin you from befriending those who do not fight you because of religion, and do not evict you from your homes. You may befriend them and be equitable towards them. GOD loves the equitable. "
"If they withdraw from you and fight you not, but (instead) send you (guarantees of) peace, then God alloweth no way for you (to war against them)" (4:90).
"If the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in God" (8:61)
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Ezekiel has all kinds of fire and brimstone and war. Remember ezekiel 25:17's "Great vengeance and furious anger" stuff.
You are still dealing with O.T. stuff there though, when yahweh was an angry, vengful god that'd strike down the uncircumsized with plagues and disease and shit. JC came around and started telling everyone to be nice to each other.
In both cases, it only shows that anyone who claims to be christian/moslem and harbours hate towards anyone is a hypocrite... and the more public they are about touting their 'faith' the more likely they are to be the worst example of that faith. "Praise the lord and pass the ammo" faux-christians would just be pathetically laughable if they weren't so heavily armed, rather than the blight on the planet they currently are. Ditto for hatemongering 'death to the infidel' faux-moslems.
Seems like all the religions making shit on the planet right now are ones based on the Old Testament though. You don't see too many people killed in the name of vishnu, or bombs for buddha.
