if christianity in general had no provable history and was 'read out of a hat' as it were, it wouldn't lead me to be any more or less scared of pat robertson and the christian coalition, who advocate a blank cheque for israel to bring aboot the end-times.
actions speak louder, and the majority of mormons you run across are incredibly nice and don't organize political movements to end the ****ing world. would they if they were a majority? i guess that's possible, as political movements typically infiltrate religious institutions and twist them to their will.
i was at london drugs a couple weekends ago helping my buddy buy a microwave and while strolling through the computer section i pointed out and laughed at one of these 'saty behind' computer games, with captions that read 'destroy the unbeliever' (paraphrase) etc. and not 10 seconds after i replaced it on the shelf this guy comes along showing it to his friend, 'yeah we're all going to heaven like next week'...
these 'ejection seat christians' hell bent on 'moving things along' should read some history, the schoffield bible came out luike a century ago and the world is still here - mess it up enough and you'll be stuck with the rest of us.
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