How do you gift a human life? Someone’s interpretat
Giving my child away because the Bible says I should
If there’s an urgency to destroying radical Islam, shouldn’t there be an equal or greater urgency to target fundamental Christians who “gift” a human? Why is it so easy to recognize a twisted interpretation of a Christian doctrine as contrary to most Christian beliefs, but not so when it is within Islam?
Why are we willing to act out of fear and destroy those we do not understand because we see them as broadly representative of an entire religious tradition, yet, when confronted with similar examples of a “Christian” atrocity, we argue it does not represent most Christians.
Where’s the outrage? Where’s the slobbering vitriol to “destroy” these enemies of all that is good?
My issue with religion is the certainty of adherents that their own theology is the correct one and all others are wrong. They hold this secret despite protestations to the contrary. As I am often reminded,
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Those who embrace the fundamental aspects of any religion are equally dangerous in my mind.
One lashes out with bombs strapped to brain-washed adherents who believe they’ve booked a trip to a “Virgin” nirvana.
Another will use cruise missiles or perhaps nuclear weapons to blanketly target 1.5 billion adherents because of the actions of a few.
All in the name of God.
Where’s the “Christianity” in that?
There isn’t any. As you know, the monsters who commit these acts of terror are brainwashed into believing a warp view of religion. They also have to be sick puppies to follow through with martyring themselves in the name of God. Shame on them.
I think many people have lost the ability to think for themselves and critically examine issues. The article about “gifting” children to a predator is horrid. Seeking the divine is important to many people who act with compassion and wisdom to help others as well as themselves. Blind faith is no more than ignorance in this case. Blissing out on anything – Jesus, nirvana, drugs – is just another form of hiding from reality and taking responsibility for your life, your actions and your family.