7th Grade Students Required to Write 'Allah Is the Only God' in Tennessee

[Angel4Truth]

In Revelation it states that the blood of the unfaithful will reach to the level of the horse's bridle for a distance of 200 miles. And Jesus is the one who rides that particular horse, with swords of lightning shooting from his mouth.

Im sorry, can you post the part of it where it says christians are suppose to cause that? Thanks. (It actually says God will do that)

You know as well as I do how easy it is to recognize the underlying violence and revenge fantasies among many of today's faithful.

Today Christianity and Islam are partaking in other-worldliness fantasy, bigotry, patriarchy, homophobia, hypocrisy and elitism.
And the ancient theological phrases both faiths espouse are neither compelling or attractive in today's global culture.

Both give faith a bad name.

You know as well as i do, there are no verses telling Christians to slay non believers for being non believers and force their conversion.

The only people who believe Islam and Christianity are even remotely similar are those who dont believe the holy books of either.

 

[Stripe]

Or simply realize that public schools aren't forcing conversion to Islam.

Except for this one, which is. What you will be guaranteed at schools is teachers who have godless agendas that they will push as far as they can and morons who will defend them.

 

[aikido7]

Im sorry, can you post the part of it where it says christians are suppose to cause that? Thanks. (It actually says God will do that)

Nice sideways dodge, but it doesn't wash. What does Revelation say about YOUR God's character and the character of Jesus's God?

Jesus talked of a God in Matthew that:

"... makes his sun to shine on both the good and the evil and sends his rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous alike."

You know as well as i do, there are no verses telling Christians to slay non believers for being non believers and force their conversion.

Jesus did not say that, nor did Mohammed. But his later biographers and followers certainly did.

You don't really think that Christians who purposefully kill others haven't worked out their own twisted version of their faith to sanction their crimes against humanity?

You are simply choosing not to pay attention. There has been plenty of news about Christian militias in Africa slaughtering innocent Muslims. But that doesn't fit with your reality, does it?

The only people who believe Islam and Christianity are even remotely similar are those who dont believe the holy books of either.

All faiths are similar. They all preach love for the other, forgiveness and compassion for all. They are united in that same love and awareness.

Why is it always the leaders of the world religions who are able to meet, open their hearts to each other and have a useful exchange of ideas and sit together on an island of peace? It is the followers who are usually the ones who cannot stay away from paranoia and fear and go for each other's throats?

Jesus said that NO ONE comes to the Father except through him and he clearly demonstrated with his life and death that he represented LOVE.

 

[Stripe]

All faiths are similar.

That's not a surprising thing to hear from someone who has no idea what the Bible teaches.

 

[aikido7]

The trouble with the Quran....

The entire text was put together in a hodge-podge. The only order the Quran shows is that the most longest passages were put in the beginning of the book and the shortest verses were assigned at the end.

The Bible, however, can clearly be separated into different historical epochs and histories.

If you read the gospels in parallel, the way scholars do, you will soon discover that both Luke and Matthew had a copy of Mark in front of them because they both follow his order of events pretty faithfully. But they change Mark's agenda to suit their own.

And there is also a sizable chunk of verses in both Luke and Matthew that can be seen when one puts aside their re-working of Mark. This will reveal a hidden gospel, a theoretical construct called the Gospel of Q.

It is a bit like when a teacher grades papers and sees the same essential material in the papers of two different students. Obviously it becomes clear that both these students used another source and it is the same one.

 

[OCTOBER23]

WHO IS SPONSORING THIS ACADEMIC DEVIL WORSHIP ?

I BET MOSLEM MONEY IS BEHIND IT.

OBAMA is a Sunni Moslem as he admits .

 

[Angel4Truth]

Nice sideways dodge, but it doesn't wash. What does Revelation say about YOUR God's character and the character of Jesus's God?.....<snip>

In other words, you wont be producing a scripture that tells christians to murder non believers and force them to convert, like i said.

 

[aikido7]

That's not a surprising thing to hear from someone who has no idea what the Bible teaches.

You just have to hear with two ears. The epic moral narrative of the Hebrew Bible as well as the Kingdom of God teachings of Jesus are broadly anti-exclusive. It is the confusion of men that erect the barriers which never should have been erected in the first place.

Being able to separate what the authentic voice-print of the historical Jesus from the propositional theology that was attached to him after he died is a good skill to have.

The New Testament is a complex mix of remembered history, oral tradition, theology, myth, metaphors and legends. Scholars and other historians have developed an accepted methodology to help to separate the different genres in the text and place them in their own religious, historical and religious context.

Few pastors go down this road. They do not want to rock the boat, since any first-year seminary or theological course goes into these matters in detail. The clergy is concerned with dogma and faith--not historical matrix.

 

[kmoney]

Would the lawsuits be flying if children were asked to write the nicene creed in a history class in a public school in america?

:idunno: I wouldn't be surprised if someone did.

 

[OCTOBER23]

The Moslem Empire went as far as Spain where Christopher Columbus

had to take the Jewish population away to the New World of America.

If you did not become Moslem , the Moslems would cut off your head.

If you did not become Catholic , the Catholics would Torture you.

So much for Catholic and Moslem Religions.

 

[kmoney]

Except for this one, which is. What you will be guaranteed at schools is teachers who have godless agendas that they will push as far as they can and morons who will defend them.

No, this one isn't either.

 

[aikido7]

In other words, you wont be producing a scripture that tells christians to murder non believers and force them to convert, like i said.

You still strain to be "right" and I don't want to take that away from you.

All I am saying is that any Christian can find scriptural reasons to treat others as "less than human." Those awful biblical texts resonate with our unfortunate tendency to scapegoat others, de-humanize whole religions and engage in revenge and violence in the world.

I do not "produce" anything that is not already there in black and white.

One thing I have noticed is that any scriptural proof I have ever offered on TOL fails to even register with most readers. It's more comforting to believe that we are the "good ones" and if only we could gather all those "evil ones" over there and destroy them--THEN we will finally have peace!

Uh, right!

That line between good and evil actually runs down the center of every human heart. Are you willing to destroy a piece of your own heart? Hopefully not.

 

[Angel4Truth]

You still strain to be "right" and I don't want to take that away from you.

All I am saying is that any Christian can find scriptural reasons to treat others as "less than human." Those awful biblical texts resonate with our unfortunate tendency to scapegoat others, de-humanize whole religions and engage in revenge and violence in the world.

I do not "produce" anything that is not already there in black and white.

One thing I have noticed is that any scriptural proof I have ever offered on TOL fails to even register with most readers. It's more comforting to believe that we are the "good ones" and if only we could gather all those "evil ones" over there and destroy them--THEN we will finally have peace!

Uh, right!

Let me know when you find that scripture you claim exists that tells us(christians) to kill non believers and force them to convert.

 

[kmoney]

WHO IS SPONSORING THIS ACADEMIC DEVIL WORSHIP ?

I BET MOSLEM MONEY IS BEHIND IT.

OBAMA is a Sunni Moslem as he admits .

He admitted that?? :AMR:

 

[aikido7]

Let me know when you find that scripture you claim exists that tells us(christians) to kill non believers and force them to convert.

Don't be silly. You know quite well what I am saying.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Don't be silly. You know quite well what I am saying.

yep, that you are talking out of your hind end. Since no such thing as you claimed, exists.

 

[Arthur Brain]

Let me know when you find that scripture you claim exists that tells us(christians) to kill non believers and force them to convert.

Well, maybe not specifically non believers but there's plenty of Christians on here who advocate killing homosexuals and adulterers. There's even those who think nuking countries is the way to go...

 

[aikido7]

yep, that you are talking out of your hind end. Since no such thing as you claimed, exists.

Like I said, you need to be right. So be right.

I can never claim that I am right about anything. So that's a big difference between you and I.

 

[Angel4Truth]

Well, maybe not specifically non believers but there's plenty of Christians on here who advocate killing homosexuals and adulterers. There's even those who think nuking countries is the way to go...

Which has nothing to do with what was claimed, thank you for playing.

 

[aikido7]

Well, maybe not specifically non believers but there's plenty of Christians on here who advocate killing homosexuals and adulterers. There's even those who think nuking countries is the way to go...

I think you and I are on the same page.

Cognitive dissonance is when someone is confronted with the prospect of trying to hold two diametrically opposite truths in their minds at one time.

And usually, the result of such dissonance is the fact that the person who is presented with challenges to his or her point of view ends up clinging to their own notion even more strongly.

You will not convince those who have made up their minds already.