Posted by Belinda on March 31, 19103 at 20:23:27:
Bill,
It is impossible to talk logic and reason to the religiously insane such as Johnathon McCollam. Give up. As Voltaire said "Those who believe absurdities commit attrocities". While you speak of the blood being shed today and the need for peace and justice the religiously insane speak of the superstions of superstions of a barbaric tribe of thousands of years ago.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
Unfortunatley the christian church has always sided with fascism and tyrrany of the common man and it is because it can render kind, decent people devoid of their senses.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. -- Thomas Paine
PS I personally have come to the conclusion that it would be hell for me to have to go to a place where there are a bunch of superstious, persecuting, unreasoning, illogical, hate filled "Christians". Can you imagine having to spend eternity with Pat "death squad funder" Robertson?