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SouthernDemLinda

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16. How non-violent is any religion?
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 12:51 PM
Jun 2016

How non-violent is the Christian Gawd? You don't want to make Him angry! He sure can't control His rages. He is a narcissistic lunatic who needs praise and worship constantly.
The Bible's description is of a maniac with emotional problems, insecurities, and uncontrollable jealous rages. Murders children for bad mouthing parents, or making fun of a bald head. There is long history of a relationship between religion and violence. All religion including the Christian religion.

There have been individual acts of violence and crime, and the mass acts like the Crusades or Holy Wars, which are linked to politics and culture, and in many instances Gawd instructed people who are in conflicts to rape, pillage and burn the cities (in that order) a perfect being with these abnormal emotions?

Violence is definitely the most often mentioned activity in the Bible. There is a huge conflict between what is written in the Bible and civilized people's concept of what is just, loving, caring and benevolent. God justifies slavery and defines women as inferiors and the property of men. There is no industrialized or civilized country that would sanction genocide, but Gawd ordered it many times.

Anyone can deny these facts, but they are the facts, and these facts seriously question the morality of the Gawd of the Bible.

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How non-violent is any religion? SouthernDemLinda Jun 2016 #16
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