To: xzins
That’s one of the big problems with religion. Your’s is right and therefore everyone else’s has to be wrong. It doesn’t bother me though until people start believing their god wants them to go out and bother me, or worse, kill people that don’t believe just like they believe.
To: TKDietz
I, of course, do think that Christianity is right, Judaism is partially right, and the rest are wrong.
Within Christianity the various denominations all contain Christians, imho, and whatever share of tares is their lot.
5,268 posted on
09/03/2007 10:12:06 AM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
To: TKDietz; xzins
Thats one of the big problems with religion. Yours is right and therefore everyone elses has to be wrong. It doesnt bother me though until people start believing their god wants them to go out and bother me, or worse, kill people that dont believe just like they believe. You raise an interesting point that gets discussed a great deal. I believe you will not find in the New Testament any instructions to go out and kill those who do not believe as you do. The New Testament instructs Christians to preach the gospel.
It was the politically controlled organizations that pursued the practice of killing those who refused to believe as they wanted. In Christianity those churches that were as much political organizations as religious have been neutered. The current example of a religion as a political entity is Islam.
5,279 posted on
09/03/2007 11:39:46 AM PDT by
wmfights
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