Saturday, December 25, 2004

There has not been a mass murderer that has not claimed that God was on their side, including Hitler

religion and politics: how to corrupt them both: "Religion & Politics and How to Corrupt Them Both | By JACK DALTON | 12-24-04

There are certain things in life that just do not go together—peanut butter and tuna fish come to mind. There’s nothing wrong with either one but I don’t recommend mixing them together or you’ll end up with a really bad taste in your mouth. The same can be said of mixing religion and politics. There is no possible way to merge the two without them mutually polluting each other.
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My failure to see anything Christian or righteous regarding Bush, Falwell and the “religious right” is because I feel those characteristics require a bit more than just lip service. Recently the “good” Rev. Falwell proclaimed that “we should just keep bombing them all in the name of the Lord.” Riiiiight! That will solve everything won’t it? This is the kind of thinking that has invaded way too many of America’s pulpits.

The unfortunate thing about organized religion—all religions—is the fundamentalists within it who won’t be satisfied until all people accept their way of life and worship; and they are willing to go to violent extremes to achieve that goal. ...
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Those that are a part of this radical movement, that have the audacity to call themselves “Christians,” state over and over again that they are in no way like the Taliban or al-Queda because they are not as vicious or as brutal. There are upwards of 100,000 dead Iraqi’s that would beg to differ; there are mangled children in Fallujah who would also beg to differ; the over 500,000 Iraqi children that died as a result of ten years of U.S. sanctions would also beg to differ.

Then there is the destructive image given to Christianity, as a whole, by this group of “Cherry Pickin’ Christians.” These are the people that have given Christianity a serious black-eye by such outspoken and all too visible “religious leaders” who think God supports invasions and torture, just as long as it’s done in “His name.”
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This revolutionary movement is using the Constitution to take away guaranteed rights for certain groups of American citizens for the first time in the nation’s history. It has moved into our public schools and is working overtime to discredit science in order to implement the “reality of Creationism.”

... there has not been a mass murderer that has not claimed that God was on their side, including Hitler: “The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933.

Does that sound familiar to anyone? God is always being “used” by those that desire to control the citizens of their nations and to “move” them in the desired direction—it has never worked and is doomed to failure here in America—but what will be the cost?; ...
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Galations 5:22, 23: …but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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