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To: hellbender
Re 102: Are you, then, saying that Christianity is just another of these many "dogmatic value systems?"

Yes, you can make a pretty good case for this.

Dogmatic value systems routinely define "heretics", "blashphers", "infidels", and work to suppress them.

The hatred toward atheists is a good example. The St. Bartholemews Day massacre by Catholics is another. The massacre of the Albingensians is another. The hanging of Mary Dwyer for the "sin" of being a Quaker by the Puritans is another.

Dogmatic value systems--whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu--are the threat. Especially when organized into religious cults that oppose freedom.

115 posted on 08/01/2006 5:01:29 PM PDT by thomaswest (I just believe in one fewer god than you do.)
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To: thomaswest

Christianity=the teachings of Jesus Christ, not what some humans do.

The only times someone was brought to Jesus and described as deserving death, he forgave them and sent them on their way.

When Peter wanted to fight the Temple guards who came to arrest Jesus, Jesus stopped him, and went willingly to His death.

And you expect us to believe that Christianity is about hatred and condemnation?

[Take that, you "blashpher.}


150 posted on 08/01/2006 5:51:19 PM PDT by hellbender
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