The one single most important message I got from what people have written about Jesus has been of love for fellow people. It has been misinterpretations of what carried that message that makes the messes.
The one single most important message I got from what people have written about Jesus has been of love for fellow people. It has been misinterpretations of what carried that message that makes the messes.
Personally I find it simply easier to live n let live and bypass the close and careful scrutiny of the scriptures to discover their meanings, hidden and otherwise.
powdered milk.
I think it'd probably have been recycled by many bugs first.
A common misconception. And the one that is very hard to overcome when talking to the followers of organized religions. Their books, the ones like the Bible and the Quran, say one things, what is being done by their religious leaders in real life - is quite another, and the two do not connect. Thus the conclustion - there are bad catholics/christians/muslims out there, but the religion itself doesn't teach followers to be bad. People, when will you realize that there is a world of difference between what a religion teaches and how it actually manifests itself? By the way, wasn't it Jesus who said "By their fruit you will recognize them"?
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her motherinlaw".
How does this fit into a doctrine of love? Isn't this quite opposite to love?
Mind you, I don't believe the bible quotes Jesus word for word as it was written long after he died so I have a tough time picking out individual quotations and tend to look at it in an overall context.
You have taken a simplistic view of things just to reinforce your own agenda.
You could read any book and do something bad. The books don't make you do it. At some point, you have to take responsibility for your own actions. Religion didn't make that woman starve her child. She was not powerless. She was stupid and gullible and weak willed.
Wow, Cannuck, that's really hysterical. :lol::lol::lol:
The woman is only just one specific example. But when you put all of the specific examples together, and they are all more or less alike, doesn't it make you want to ask questions?
Yes, I accuse you of having an agenda. What's hysterical about that? That's the difference between us.
It is a good chuckle, isn't it? "When I simplify something it's ok. But it isn't ok when you do it". lmaoWait a minute!!!
But you accuse me:
Wow, Cannuck, that's really hysterical. :lol::lol::lol:
According to a statement of facts, the cult members stopped feeding the boy when he refused to say "Amen" after a meal. After Javon died, Ramkissoon sat next to his decomposing body and prayed for his resurrection.