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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Millions have been killed in the name of my God. Most without the approval of God or sanction of scriptures. Certainly there is no mandate for Christians to kill in the name of God.
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Except, you know, the bible. It's everywhere in there.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
That doesn't change the inappropriateness of raising a temple unto Allah in the ashes of the 3000 lives that were killed in Allah's name and in accordance with his scriptures.
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"By the standards of the time, which is the 7th century A.D., the laws of war that are laid down by the Quran are actually reasonably humane," he says. "Then we turn to the Bible, and we actually find something that is for many people a real surprise. There is a specific kind of warfare laid down in the Bible which we can only call genocide."
It is called herem, and it means total annihilation. Consider the Book of 1 Samuel, when God instructs King Saul to attack the Amalekites: "And utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them," God says through the prophet Samuel. "But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."
When Saul failed to do that, God took away his kingdom.
"In other words," Jenkins says, "Saul has committed a dreadful sin by failing to complete genocide. And that passage echoes through Christian history. It is often used, for example, in American stories of the confrontation with Indians — not just is it legitimate to kill Indians, but you are violating God's law if you do not."
Jenkins notes that the history of Christianity is strewn with herem. During the Crusades in the Middle Ages, the Catholic popes declared the Muslims Amalekites. In the great religious wars in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, Protestants and Catholics each believed the other side were the Amalekites and should be utterly destroyed.
-http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124494788
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
There are Arab Muslims who are still distrustful of christians because of the crusades which happened centuries ago. We are talking about something that happened 10 years ago.
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When were the two holy books of wisdom and morality written?
And there are atheists that are distrustful of all theists only for what they've done today, what fallacious argument do you have to dismiss them?