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Originally posted by Mike AI@Nov 26 2002, 03:35 PM
The NEW Testiment, which si the basis for Christianity is centered around peace, and turing the other cheek.
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The way I learned it...way back in Sunday school was that Christianity is based on both the Old and New Testament.....
The Old is the Christian History prior to Christ......
The New is the story of Christ and the early Christian church and of course, what is to come......
The history of the world is violent.
The 3 religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) that we are speaking of all use the same history as their base. Therefore the 3 religions that we are speaking of are all based in violence.
To interpret a history (what has happened in the past) as being the guide for how things should be handled in the future makes good common sense, learn from your mistakes etc.
To interpret the history as being a "literal" truth demanding that you use the methods used throughout that history as the "only" ways to handle the present and future is where "ALL" fundamentalist religions make their mistakes. There are fundamentalist Jews in the states and Israel that advocate violence as an means to an end, there are fundamentalist Muslims that advocate violence as a means to and end and there are most certainly plenty of fundamentalist Christians that advocate violence as a means to an end.
They are all wrong.