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To: grey_whiskers
That particular way of putting it doesn't quite imply, but still connotes, the idea that slaughter, rapine, and torture are the common thread of religions

No, that is not what I am saying at all. Again, my statement was quite straightforward and pretty simple to understand: simply the fact that people of all faiths have committed atrocities -- just a short renunciation of another poster's statement that no Christians in all of recorded history have ever instigated unjustified violence.

Your error (and I think, partly, the other poster's also) is in incorrectly equating what I said about the people with being some sort of disparaging or dismissing statement about the Christian faith in general and of Jesus' original, uncorrupted message. It is not equatable. Understand where I'm coming from and what I'm saying now?

57 posted on 08/07/2010 3:10:50 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
I understood where you were coming from after your *first* explanation -- but you are misunderstanding where *I'm* coming from.

I used the phrase "doesn't quite imply, but still connotes" because I meant to say just that: you didn't phrase things strongly enough for a Dawkins type, but you left the screen door open, so to speak.

And note that I said *all* religions: not just Christianity.

There are pre-Christian religions which apparently did some pretty nasty things: there are post Christian religions which *continue* to do bad things.

One of the the differences of Christianity is that its founder (and its dogma) did not enjoin the slaughter of multiple humans either as an offering to God, or to spread the faith.

The only one killed as an offering to God WAS the founder: and the instrument of His torture and death is recognized worldwide as the symbol of this faith.

Cheers!

60 posted on 08/07/2010 8:11:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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