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Thread #141874 Message #3269372
Posted By: ollaimh
06-Dec-11 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Christian segregationism, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Christian segregationism, 2011
it always worries me to be agreeing with richard bridges--but then this issue doesn;t immediately raise irish issues on which he does not practice the tolerance he oreaches elsewhere. howevern the long history of christianity does not show a lot of tolerance for any group out side the main stream. be it africans who were christianized in the congo and then almost immediately enslaved, or natives in thre americas who were subjected to genocide, or different races or people of non heterosexuality.
if you believe in the old testement then i ask, what do you make of a god who in the ten commandments offers to punish transgressors unto the seventh generstion, and says i am the onyy god and syas he's a jealous god--and ashura to hindu/buddhists , or an ahura to zoroastrians.(jealous gods are lesser warring deities)
that's either mad or bad. one should not be surprised that such thoughts lead to mad or bad religon.
now i believe christ tried to shake off the old mad or bad beliefs with the obvious golden rule and his completely ignoring the law in favour of wisdom and toleration. however most christians are still followint the mad or bad god of the old testement.
by the way the native led truth of the genocide group in canada has just dug up the first of likely many bones of children, burried at christian residential school without marking or asknowledgement. those fifty thousand children who died in those schools are beginning to be heard. half of the children who went to those christian schools(anglican, united church and cathlic)died there. hallelullah for christian genocide