[freeeee]

dumb assumption

Why?

Read some history, if you can read.

I've read some history. And pretty much every time "God" tells people to kill others, the results are bloody and disastrous. Inquisitions, crusades, witch trials, and jihads. Yeah, that's a great track record. Years later with the benefit of hindsight we shake our heads at their mindless barbarism.

It's the age old lie, told again and again. Some opportunistic charlatan fools the masses into thinking God whispers into his ear. And quite by coincidence of course, God just happens to want leaders to do things that benefit their own power and prestige.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me a hundred times and I need to have my head examined.

[Ignatz]

It's the age old lie, told again and again. Some opportunistic charlatan fools the masses into thinking God whispers into his ear. And quite by coincidence of course, God just happens to want leaders to do things that benefit their own power and prestige.

...and we must be ever-vigilant for those charlatans. But the fact that they exist does not disprove God.

Atheists can have kids.

You are confusing the existence of God with belief in the existence of God. They are not the same thing.

[plusone]

Moses came down from the mountain carrying the tablets with the ten commandments (some parts of scripture actually say 12). These were given to him supposedly by the hand of God directly. Of course, one of the cammandments forbids murder. He finds that one tribes of Israel (the Levi, IIRC) have gone back to pagan worship, and are praying to a golden calf. What is the first thing Moses does upon seeing this? He has the other men from the other tribes kill the Levites, about 3000 of them. Stop and think about this. Moses has just received a moral codex from God. It states that murder is not permitted. But Moses finds the religious views of the Levites repugnant. So he has them killed. So what is the difference between Moses and Osama? If Osama was the mastermind for the 911 attacks, is this not the same scenario? As a muslim, he finds the religion of the west repugnant and offensive. So he orders about 3000 of its "pagan" worshipers kiled. I'm not sure how I think about this, but it is a distressing analogy.

[johnb838]

The inquisitors were RIGHT! They were simply fighting the same battle we are today - resistance to imperial islamic supremacism. That they've been spun into historical demons is not their fault.

[hope]

You must be rather twisted cosidering the way you like to twist other peoples words.