I never claimed that Christianity was violent.
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My bad then.
Rather than being an obvious hypocrite, you are simply a muddled thinker.
This won't apply however to other "objecters" I find throughout my threads.
I'm simply pointing out that your behaviors are inconsistent with Christian values.
This is a meaningless statement, as will become apparent in what follows.
Either you don't understand what Christian values are,
or you're being intentionally rebellious.
In either case it is my responsibility to point it out so:
1) you might correct your behavior, and
2) so that others will realize that Christianity does not really look like you.
You are sounding quite the Fundamentalist extremist.
It is not an "either, or" situation.
Lets see why:
(1)
There are NO modern demoninations of Christianity
that take the whole Bible literally, or hold it all of equal importance.
That is left to a very very tiny number of semi-literate extremists
who are both powerless, insignificant, and get zero media access,
such as a pastor or two from the Ozarks or the Louisiana swamps.
(2)
Those denominations which DO exist in significant numbers and
with significant influence and claim to actually represent modern Christianity,
or part of it,
cannot agree on which parts of the Bible are most important,
or even what the Canon of the Holy Scriptures should be:
Examples: Roman Catholics include Apocrypha of the Old Testament,
Protestants use the Hebrew text and Canon for the Old Testament,
and Coptics include the Book of Enoch.
As for the New Testament, the most ancient copies include Hermas
and I and II Clement among other NT writings.
Most scholars exclude letters like Jude as late,
consider the Pauline corpus to have been heavily edited,
and regard the Johannine writings as belonging to an isolated sect.
Mormons regard the Book of Mormon as Holy Writ.
All modern versions of the NT have crudely removed 200 whole and half verses from the Received text or the King James version.
Martin Luther rejected Esther entirely, as well as James,
Thats just the canon.
As for doctrine,
Luther overemphasized Romans and other Pauline texts.
Roman Catholics insist on earning salvation by works,
while Scottish hyperCalvinists think they have been predestined to be saved,
and cannot lose their salvation, even by horrific murders.
Jehovah's Witlesses don't accept the Trinity, or the Divinity of Christ,
Mormons still practice polygamy, SeventhDay Adventists keep the Food Laws,
and Jews reject the Messiahship of Jesus.
You haven't even told anyone what version of Christianity you yourself
have selected from the gigantic Salad Bar of Christian denominations,
sects, and churches.
Why I should judge myself according to YOUR favourite doctrines and beliefs,
is not only incomprehensible, but impossible to do, since you haven't
articulated them, or even on what basis or what version of the Bible(s)
you have come to believe them yourself.
I'm only addressing you the way many want mainstream Muslims to address radical Islamists.
Why should I care, and how is this any justification, or even explanation
for why I should embrace your personal view, when you probably can't
even articulate it?
Think of what you are saying here:
You appear to simply be
posturing for Islamic readers,
and have no real concern for Christian doctrines, true or false,
or their implications.
On a side note, my wife found the irony of your positions obvious. Ranting about "Islam is violent" while simultaneously, in the name of Christ, calling for their extinction. Do you really not listen to yourself?
(1) I call for the extinction of a paramilitary cult and an unholy handbook for religious warfare, not the extinction of any people or races.
(2)
I must suppose your wife will find it equally ironic defending her children
from being beheaded by violent criminals, rather than simply
laying herself down to be raped, sodomized and burned as an infidel in a pacifist manner.
I hope she never has to discover the irony of that.