Start Reading The Bible And Pray (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, February 16, 2009, 11:16 (5555 days ago) @ The Lord is my Shepard

I have been away for three days, and have returned to find the forum invaded by religious fundamentalists. My thanks to BBella and David Turell for attempting to restore a sense of proportion to these threads. I would say to The Lord is my Shepard, Allahu Akbar and Joseph Liebowitz that your arrogance represents the worst side of your religions. God, Allah and Jehovah are one and the same, and your religions even share textual references. The New Testament is inextricably linked with the Old, and in the Koran we learn, for instance, that: "We gave Moses the Book, and made it a guidance to the Children of Israel: 'Take not unto yourselves any guardian apart from Me.'" You worship your God in your own different ways, but you all appear to see Him as merciful and compassionate. One would also like to think that you see Him as the embodiment of love. If you think His love is conveyed by threats to kill (Allahu Akbar), incongruously likening BBella to the mass murderer Joseph Stalin because she is opposed to mass murder (The Lord is my Shepard), or taunting Allah and calling all other believers "pagans and false prophets" (Joseph Liebowitz), you are stripping your own religions of all their human values. You are also calling for precisely the intolerance that has caused untold suffering throughout human history, right up to the present.