Brian wrote:Problem is Tim, and you know this full well, that no one came even close to "using God as a cover for genocide".
Brian, I am referring to this statement by Full Quiver:
"God's way always worked. KILL all your enemies Israel including women and children!!! When they fail to do that they have trouble. Extinguish the 'Palestinians' and there will be no talk or need of a Palestinian State." Is it, or is it not, murderous, genocidal, and infanticidal?
Brian wrote:So your problem isnt with people who supposedly support "genocide" but with a God who is just and true and right and will in fact exact HIS revenge on ALL those who oppose Him. Sorry, thats just how I see it.
My problem is with murdering. It doesn't matter who claims to do it in God's name. I've never heard God say anything, but I've heard and read a lot of what humans say God said. I don't believe for a second that God would tell either Hitler or Samuel to exterminate a race of people, but I sure do believe that humans would say that God told them that.
You believe that God is not only ok with committing genocide, but also you believe that God did it righteously through Samuel and Saul, and you support that action with all your heart. Yet you argue with me for acknowledging and supporting some of Obama's policies, like, for example, an executive order against lobbying, a ban on turture, drawing down the Iraq war, and putting our military resources into Afghanistan where our real threat lies, because he supports the murder of unborn children.
Well, sorry, Charlie, but I don't care who used or uses God's or choice's name to murder children, I'm against it. That doesn't mean that I can't appreciate the good things that either Democrats or Christians do. It just means I don't buy the excuses for murder, in whosever name or for whoever's convenience they occur.
"And just when you think you've got me figured out, remember, No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." --Heraclitus