DEAR MR. FOUSE

Submitted by DANIEL REDMOND (United States), Oct 30, 2007 at 00:39

I have already acknowledged that Islam is by far the most dangerous and violent religious cult in the world today, which is evidenced by the fact that Muslims cannot even refrain from killing one another, let alone leave the rest of us in peace. The fact that Christianity is not currently so violent is a welcome development, but the notion that we need only to "follow the example of Jesus" is to ignore the more militant aspects of the Christian holy book.

A small example is found in Mathew 10:34 "Think not that I [Jesus] have come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a sword." [Taken from King James version] There are other equally troubling exhortations towards Christian violence found in the Bible, thereby demonstrating that the Koran is not the only "holy book" preaching violence.

What has always profoundly baffled me is the near universal desire here in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, of my fellow citizens to welcome the subjugation and psychological enslavement offered by Christianity. By all accounts the Christian deity is a malignant, vicious, ruthless, narcissistic bully; a despot whose primary concern is that His own creations grovel before Him endlessly while proclaiming their "unworthiness" and sin. After supposedly many thousands of years of barbarous conditions here on Earth, He finally decides to spread "His word" through the morbid spectacle of a human sacrifice in a remote little corner of the globe called Palestine. How sick is that anyway?

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