hockeyfan70 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Thought it was interesting. More fuel for the fire..... http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/1000years.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qadeshet Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 All of Ken Humphreys stuff is great. Christians would still be happily burning people at the stake if they still had the power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searchinwithnoagenda Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 A thirst for power, control, and money. Things never change. Or in xtian-ese; there is nothing new under the sun. But they somehow think they're special. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I have heard two xian arguments about the Crusades and Inquisition. One was that "these things happened a long time ago before people truly understood what was right and wrong like we do today, and today we truly understand what god wants." And the second was, "The people who did those things were not True Christians." I have heard other similar arguments, just as ridiculous and full of denial as those. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith666 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 If burning and torturing people wasn't truly what god wanted, why did he sit up there expecting everyone to figure it out after having filled the bible with contradictions like "love thy neighbor" vs. "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"? Doesn't seem like he was very motivated to do anything about his precious children being turned into fire fuel, besides hoping the Christians would eventually stumble upon what he really wanted them to do. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan70 Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 If burning and torturing people wasn't truly what god wanted, why did he sit up there expecting everyone to figure it out after having filled the bible with contradictions like "love thy neighbor" vs. "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"? Doesn't seem like he was very motivated to do anything about his precious children being turned into fire fuel, besides hoping the Christians would eventually stumble upon what he really wanted them to do. And how many Christians were killed by other Christians? Catholics vs. Protestants Calivinists vs. Arminians Christian Rwandan tribe vs. Christian Rwandan tribe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith666 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 hockeyfan: I upvoted your post partly because that's true, and also because I like your avatar. Anyway, back to Christian atrocities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan70 Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 I've been thinking a lot about Christian colonialism and missionaries who go into a foreign country and make the inhabitants conform to their tradition, their culture. Even one of my favorite movies The Mission shows how Jesuits would come to a tribe and christianize them and how they would make the tribe wear clothes and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith666 Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Do they still do that? I'm from a missionary-focused denomination, but I never researched what exactly they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfan70 Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 Do they still do that? I'm from a missionary-focused denomination, but I never researched what exactly they do. As far as making "savages" less savage, I don't think as much as back then. And I can't speak for other countries, but American missionaries bringing Western/American Christianity to non-American countries has to be rampant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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