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To: A_perfect_lady

Oh my. You know nothing about Christianity. Nothing. First, All sexual sins, including rape, are covered under “Do not commit adultery.”
Your analogy simply doesn’t work on any level. In fact it is downright racist, as in “All middle Eastern men are rapists” simply because they are from a certain region.
Second, belief in Christ as a savior from our sins has nothing to do with getting freebies. It is an acknowlegdement that we cannot be good enough to earn our way into heaven by doing good works. Many people want to believe they can be good enough to ignore the need to accept Christ.
As for not having to pay for anything, Christ isn’t about money. Christianity is about forgiveness, not revenge. The values of forgiveness, purity, modesty, stewardship are the very core of conservatism.
Black liberation theology is about revenge. It is not Christianity.


57 posted on 12/21/2012 6:50:05 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Wiser now
You are quite wrong. Rape is not adultery. That is why a man who beats and rapes his wife will face a legal situation if she presses charges. At least, in civilized countries.

That is also why, in the Bible, the penalty for raping a virgin is no different from merely having sex with her: you either pay and marry her, or get stoned to death. If the girl can prove she put up a fight, she might escape stoning, but she'll still be sold as a wife to her rapist. That's the Middle East mentality at work, then and now.

And by the way, it's not an "analogy." It's an observation. There is no provision for rape in the Bible because it is not and was never a particular concern to the Middle Eastern male mind. If pointing that out makes me racist, I really don't care.

Beating and killing your own child for disobedience is also a feature in the Bible and the modern Middle East. Again, something that the Western world came to view as "not good."

Also note the Western revulsion for cruelty to household pets. Nothing about that in the Bible. We are a different culture. Why you want to embrace something that still smacks of the same primitive, tribal violence as their modern day descendents in Egypt, Syria, and "Palestine," I do not know.

And yes, the Jesus story is pure spiritual socialism. Rather than burn in Hell for a certain time until your sins are paid for... you get the free ride. Just like we don't like anymore to work and save for what we want, we don't want to pay in the imaginary afterlife for what we did.

You look, take an honest look at all the liberal Christians in this country, and you will see they have more quotes from Jesus on giving away money, taking care of the poor, the evils of being too rich, than anything we have on how the government should not provide social services. The fact is, your God is the god of the Arab world, your Jesus is a socialist, and your world view in incoherent and silly.

64 posted on 12/22/2012 9:08:14 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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