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Thread #127208   Message #2847120
Posted By: CarolC
22-Feb-10 - 06:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Torture in a civilised world
Subject: RE: BS: Torture in a civilised world
He would note that the comparison there was to general Christianbeliefs in Europe which are more based on New Testament teachings as opposed to the Christian Sects in the USA who cling more to the Old Testament. Resulting from Royston and CarolC who rushed to list a load of bollocks from US translations of the Bible, all quotions bar one coming from the Old Testament.

Doesn't matter whether they come from the Old Testament or not, as long as there are Christians (and there are many) who use the Old Testament as a part of their holy text.

Teribus said, Anywhere in the Bible that instructs me to go out and kill anybody because they are not Christians?? No not even an hint of it

Teribus said, "Bible", not "New Testament". The Bible that is most commonly used by Christians includes both the New and Old Testaments. So just on the face of it, Teribus' statement is wrong. Then when we go back to his earlier statement...

The only repeat ONLY religion that calls for my death as an non-believer is the Muslim faith.

We can see that his wrongness is not confined to just himself as a Christian, but to everyone who is not Muslim as well as everyone who is. Because as has been shown, there are many Christians whose holy text calls for the death of non-believers, the Jewish holy texts call for the death of non-believers, and so far we are still waiting for Teribus to produce a quote from the Quran that calls for the death of Christians like Teribus.