Posted on 02/18/2015 6:39:57 PM PST by QT3.14
On Monday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough suggested that having a literal interpretation of the Bible could lead Christians to violence in a similar manner as radical Islam. Oddly enough, Scarborough hoped to avoid being "torn to shreds online" by equating the two, but made the comparison anyway.
The morning's panel centered on the violence of ISIS and its undeniable ties to the tenets of Islam, but Scarborough felt compelled to find a link between Islam and Christianity. He said:
A very crude way to put it is, this would be the ultra fundamentalist Christians who believe every single word of the Bible has to be interpreted in the exact ways which could also lead to some violence.
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Joe is such a dumba$$.
>>>What the progressives will conclude is that all religion must be eliminated. That is the logical conclusion.<<<
That is pretty much the reasoning that got God and prayer kicked out of the schools.
joe, is an.....idiot....
I could be considered an “extreme fundamentallist”-evangelist Lester Roloff is one of my heroes-and nothing I’ve ever been taught or read in the Bible ever told me to harm unbelievers, but to pray for their salvation and share the Gospel. I must admit that this makes me angry and frustrated, that people who are Biblically illiterate will hear this and believe the false equivalence. This is one of the times that I have to remember that God is bigger than the lie, and that the Holy Spirit, the Restrainer, hasn’t yet been removed from this world and is still working in hearts,
He should have cited those passages in the Bible that Fundamentalist Christian Terrorists would base their Terrorist beliefs on. I have read that book more than once and through some oversight have never seen those verses.I should like to be enlightened by Mr. Scabrous.
Well .. If they really want to go down memory lane - we could re-examine how Janet Reno dealt with “Christian extremists” (i.e. a true cult that considered Koresh to be Christ ... Hardly what you would call “Christian”)
are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a theorized few lunatics.
“ultra fundamentalist Christians” has a propaganda sound to it..
a disinformation ringing, a lying agenda smell in the air...
Joe must be angling for an invite to the next democrat political orgy.. with after parties..
I challenged a liberal on this today. “Well the early fundamentalist Christians.”
“You mean the ones who were being murdered by the Romans? Eaten by lions for their faith. Those?”
There’s some mythical Christians somewhere who are doing this. This is why groups like the Westboro Baptists, with 30 members, get constant national press for their activities: It fits the narrative libs want to present.
This. A thousand times this.
I have a new policy as of today - Never trust anyone who shares the same views on Christianity as the Obama administration, especially if those people claim to be "on your side."
Hyper-liberals continually spewing propaganda on MSNBC could lead to some violence.
He won reelection then snuck over 3 Counties where a Judge gave him custody of his 2 sons
Week before case his intern in Fort Walton Beach, Florida was murdered with no investigation.
He resigns goes to work for the Lawyer who was given the Tobacco Lawsuit in Florida given by Lawton Childes.
Joe should be in Jail
It is important to not stand in the way if someone wants to prove their stupidity...let Joe prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.......
This is another feeble attempt by a Obama lover at moral equivalence. There is no moral equivalency here.
Muhammad began his spree of plunder in 623 AD with the raiding of caravans during Ramadan, the Holy Month of Peace. The attack on caravans continued: Prisoners were beheaded and the booty flowed into Muhammad and his followers.
Muhammad came up with another pathway to wealth. It was the forced conversion tactic. Learning the beheading technique created a significant impact on a community, it became a centerpiece of his murderous thievery, because it intimidated his opposition to a significant degree. The beheadings continued with a rein of terror which consisted of, you could flee, convert to Islam, or lose your head. Those who converted, would be new followers who he could use for his exploits. Those who lost their heads, of course, became fair game for all they owned. Muhammad learned that this was the pathway to wealth and lots of sex (slaves, rape and women for the harem). He was known to have as many as fifteen wives (including a cousin). To maintain such a harem, Muhammad kept a fifth of the spoils.
Because of his success, the savage tribesmen of the Arabian Peninsula flocked to his banner, with the promise of battle, booty, women, and slaves; all sanctioned by Gods Prophet. That is my summary to his playbook of success.
The Islamic savages have learned the Muhammad playbook and are practicing it to the minute degree. To them, it is their ticket to battle, booty, women, and slaves. Instead of working to solve the next cure for cancer, they have themselves become a cancer—just as “God’s Prophet” was to the Arabian Peninsula. And being a cancer, men of this earth must do everything in their power to eliminate it.
Remember the Campbellite wars here on FR about 10 years ago? Those were some hot times!
The fifth pillar of islam is to accept the literal koran. To be a moolsem means to accept all 5 of the pillars.
I believe every word of the Bible and anyone who studies the words of God (and the Bible IS the word of God), knows the proper place to use force, that is only to the extent necessary to restore peace and the rule of law within godly principles. The more a person understand what it means to “put on Christ”, the more at peace he is with his carnal human nature, his circumstances and the more he wants to live at peace, if at all possible with his neighbor.
Moreover, when such a person studies God’s Law, that is founded on the Ten Commands, he understands that two of the commands (the one that forbids theft and the one that forbids coveting) the less he understands that socialism is evil, and is organized and institutional coveting and theft, wrapped up on the lie that society will be more equal under that system.
I would rather have a neighbor who studies the Word of God every day than one who studies Marx every day.
OK, show me how the teachings of Christ, or the teachings of Paul, or the teachings of John, or Peter, or James and so on, can lead to terrorism if taken as fundamental truth. It can’t be done.
Israel was a theocracy, and much of the old testament was concerned with the Hebrews forming a theocratic kingdom within the boundaries of Israel. That is very unlike the Koran that is concerned with enforcing an Islamic theocracy throughout the world.
Christianity is the truth. That is all that matters. If it leads to violence, so be it.
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