Posted on 08/31/2019 8:01:52 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The thing is, no other religion on Earth urges, nay, commands their disciples to torture, maim and kill those who do not worship their way.
Islam does.
Quran 8:12 – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” (No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle. <—Comment, Alas Babylon!).
8:13 That is because they opposed Allah and His Messenger. And whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger – indeed, Allah is severe in penalty.
8:14 “That [is yours], so taste it.” And indeed for the disbelievers is the punishment of the Fire.
8:15 O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [for battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight].
8:16 And whoever turns his back to them on such a day, unless swerving [as a strategy] for war or joining [another] company, has certainly returned with anger [upon him] from Allah , and his refuge is Hell – and wretched is the destination.
8:17 And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
It is clear that there were some Israelites who posed as believers in and keepers of the covenant with Yahweh, while inwardly they did not believe and secretly practiced false religions, and even tried to spread them (cf. Deut. 13:6–11). To protect the kingdom from such hidden heresy, these secret practitioners of false religions had to be rooted out and expelled from the community. This directive from the Lord applied even to whole cities that turned away from the true religion (Deut. 13:12–18). Like Israel, medieval Europe was a society of Christian kingdoms that were formally consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is therefore quite understandable that these Catholics would read their Bibles and conclude that for the good of their Christian society they, like the Israelites before them, “must purge the evil from the midst of you” (Deut. 13:5, 17:7, 12). Paul repeats this principle in 1 Corinthians 5:13.
These same texts were interpreted similarly by the first Protestants, who also tried to root out and punish those they regarded as heretics. Luther and Calvin both endorsed the right of the state to protect society by purging false religion. In fact, Calvin not only banished from Geneva those who did not share his views, he permitted and in some cases ordered others to be executed for “heresy” (e.g., Jacques Gouet, tortured and beheaded in 1547; and Michael Servetus, burned at the stake in 1553). In England and Ireland, Reformers engaged in their own ruthless inquisitions and executions. Thousands of English and Irish Catholics were put to death—many by being hanged, drawn, and quartered—for practicing the Catholic faith and refusing to become Protestant. An even greater number were forced to flee to the Continent. We point this out to show that both sides understood the Bible to require the use of penal sanctions to root out false religion from Christian society.
The fact that the Protestant Reformers also created inquisitions to root out Catholics and others who did not fall into line with the doctrines of the local Protestant sect shows that the existence of an inquisition does not prove that a movement is not of God. Protestants cannot make this claim against Catholics without having it backfire on themselves.
What about the Jews who were practicing Jews?
Protestants, whom the Catholic church had put out guidance to kill, put their own parishioners in the crosshairs of what happened as England fought back against The Unholy Pope’s edicts.
Aside from the Muslim attacks, everything else from Protestants and Jews was simply a counter move against what The Unholy Catholic church started first through killings and torture.
In two hundred years, the Unholy Catholic church will have a similar webpage to talk to the circumstances around the sexual perversions of its hierarchy from today's headlines. It, too, will be fabricated to biblically justify a few occasions it occurred, while saying the practice was minor and practiced as much or more so by Protestants. After all, that is what propaganda is supposed to do.
Absolutely right! *slam is a violent, world-domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.
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Correct!
It is NOT a religion and never has been.
It represents the first instance if, and most enduring example of, pure fascism.
Post #82 is meant for you, “fidelis.”
Uh, the Catholic church says it can justify it:
“To that end, it is helpful to point out that it is easy to see how those who led the Inquisitions could think their actions were justified. The Bible itself records instances where God commanded that formal, legal inquiries—that is, inquisitions—be carried out to expose secret believers in false religions. In Deuteronomy 17:2–5, God said: “If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently [note that phrase: “inquire diligently”], and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel, then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.”
https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-inquisition
Pretty picky on what they decide is obsolete ‘old law’, aren’t they?
We all—Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox—follow Jesus as the Savior.
I would think it is time for us Christians to hang together, or surely we will hang—or more like be beheaded—separately.
There is nothing in Christian Scripture where Christ tells his followers to kill unbelievers. Those that do may well be Christians, but Jesus never directed this.
All races and religions could live together if it weren’t for Muslims"
Clearly specified by the quran... It states that if they won't convert, kill'em...
Islam is a murderous hideous disease that has been recognized as such by world leaders throughout our history... (For example: Thomas Jefferson, FDR, Churchill...)
In this country, it wasn't until we elected a moslem foreigner to the Presidency that islam became the Nation's de facto privileged religion and the endless slaughter of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Hindus, etc, became a cultural privilege...
No one in the West can criticize anything anyone in South Asia says agains Islam.
Their history and present life I shaped by the Muslim invasions and genocide of South Asia
Genesis 16:
7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
11 The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”
Read ALL the posts you get in response.
You are about to receive your education.
So true.
the Nazi were occultists and would of started to eliminate Christians eventually.
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael, a
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward b all his brothers.”
What Book And Chapter is that?
Mark
Genesis 16:12 - all you had to do was high-lite a portion of it and do a search and it would have showed up...but, being Sunday and having another article about working on the Sabbath out there....Plant City must be very religious..
Just yankin’ yer chain - happy FReeping...
Thanks. And Same to you.
Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian)
Meaning such Protestants were acting like Catholics had and did for so long, and had much more to unlearn from them.
The fact that the Protestant Reformers also created inquisitions to root out Catholics and others who did not fall into line with the doctrines of the local Protestant sect shows that the existence of an inquisition does not prove that a movement is not of God.
It certainly does not prove that Protestantism is not of God since it has no central leadership and as a whole movement it did not sanction the unholy use of the sword of men (the victims of which were sometimes Protestant), whereas in Roman Catholicism submission to a supreme earthly head is required.
And which required of RC rulers to exterminate in the territories subject to their jurisdiction all heretics pointed out by the Roman Church, and sanctioned the torture of even suspected witnesses to extract confession.
And while this itself does not proves an entire movement is not of God, Scripture proves that the "movement" to use to the sword of men in order to suppress theological dissent is not of God. For the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation, and in which distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest .
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