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To: Tell It Right


Some of all the billions of people will live forever in Heaven and the rest of the billions will live forever in Hell (if you can call it living).

This is what all believers in their various tangible, touchable, personal lords and saviors and holy messengers say. Thank you for clarifying that Jesus, your personal lord and savior, is the one you believe will send you to the good place, and everyone else who doesn't believe as you do to the bad place. Preach your exclusivity! Scream it! Kill for it, as so many others have done. Yours is the one, true thingy.


10 posted on 04/28/2023 8:37:34 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux
My friend, don't mistake those who did wrong in the name of Jesus with the teachings of Jesus Himself.

Kill for it, as so many others have done. Nope, Jesus told his followers to put their swords down, including one who was protecting Jesus from soldiers, that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Matthew 26:51-52.

Preach your exclusivity! Again, nope. Jesus is the ultimate it inclusivity. In the world He came to 2,000 years ago your race defined everything about you, even your religion. Jesus curb stomped that kind of division into the ground when He told His disciples to take the gospel to all the world. Matthew 28:19.

Now, compare that to Darwin on the other hand, who said in his Origin of Species that nature teaches us that slaves are necessary including his observation that the red ant colony would cease to exist if they didn't have black ant slave labor (pages 220-223) (thus the abolition movement in Darwin's time should be scaled down to keep slaves in their place). Sounds pretty exclusive to me. And if not enslaved, he said it's best to wipe them out. He said that not just about blacks but all the other non-whites (in his sequel book, The Descent of Man). In page 160 of Descent of Man, Darwin stated it like "From the remotest times successful tribes have supplanted other tribes. … At the present day civilised nations are everywhere supplanting barbarous nations”.

Whose teachings should we follow for peace and inclusivity? Jesus' or Darwin's?

12 posted on 04/28/2023 9:04:49 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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