HovisPresley wrote on 09/01/16 at 19:22:07:Ray "Flip it......
One could say those who want to restrict freedom of religion(s) are Hitlers too."
Agreed, I'm all for whatever religion anyone wants to be in society.
It's just the 'turn the other cheek/thou shalt not kill' bit that gets me.
Aggression and hypocrisy (despite being qualities that the TT seems to encourage these days) is the trademark of the Christian West.
No-one from the middle east (since the Ottomans) has ever invaded a Western country, but unfortunately, OIL is in great supply from Mohamed's neighborhood. Oil is money, power and influence.
As places like Aleppo and Gaza get turned into cement dust....I just wonder why people don't realise that it's the same one God you are worshiping.
Same place.
Same Abraham, the same Noah.
Same Jesus, and there is a whole chapter on the virgin Mary in the Koran....
But, we are told to hate them.
As for Mark's use of the word 'dump', I think it's a cross between 'dumb' and 'trump'.....'dump'
Oil is money, power and influence.......
I hear the gist of your observation, but I don't think it was some great scheme of many, but the results of a few.
Was the slave not a implement, to wealth and power, as well?
Did the locals sell off their own, to increase their own personal wealth?
I chalk up most of how this life is transpiring, to evil.
Man had a choice, he took the wrong one, and we carry the results and burden, today.
You yourself bro, willingly, or unwillingly, perpetuates this evilness too, I see you are trapped, as I, and those you charge, with this declaration you wrote:
But, we are told to hate them.Until I turn that cheek, without calling attention to myself, be it by example, or chastise, I have blood on my hands too.
I have sold out the truth of real love, for my own "wants".
I should be darned to hell