| Human sacrifice; was: OT: Solipsism [message #200725] |
Mi, 11 Januar 2006 00:13 |
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"Robert Kolker" <nowhere [at] nowhere.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:b-SdnQE5OoZzRV7enZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d [at] comcast.com...
> Actually they would be killing themselves or martyring themselves, like
> Moslems do. A true Christian would strap on the bomb and infiltrate a
> class in the Theory of Evolution and blow the thing to smithereens. But
> Christians generally do not do such things which tell me they do not
> take their religion too seriously, at least on days which are not Sunday.
Didn't early Christians seek early entrance to Heaven by committing
suicide, until Church leaders had to make the case that suicide was a sin?
But even Moslem suicide bombers do not sit quietly in their homes, slitting
their own throats. On the face of it they try to achieve some military
objective by sacrificing, not merely risking, their lives. To me, of
course, it seems more as if some of them are trying to build a mountain of
carrion high enough to climb to Heaven, when it is the death of the suicide
bomber which takes the precedence in the rhetoric and not the actual
military objective - especially if the "military objective" is the deaths of
as many "un-believers" and "apostates" as possible.
Some religions in the area practiced human sacrifice as a religious rite.
As I understand it, when Abraham was tested to see if he would sacrifice
Isaac, and then allowed not to do so, this has become a reason for not
worshipping God by human sacrifice in all three Abrahamic religions. But
the suicide terrorists have reinstated human sacrifice as a religious rite
then, haven't they?
Jon Lennart Beck.
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| Re: Human sacrifice; was: OT: Solipsism [message #200726 ] |
Mi, 11 Januar 2006 01:15 |
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Raven wrote:
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> Didn't early Christians seek ........
"One man's theology is another man's belly-laugh."
L. Long
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| Re: Human sacrifice; was: OT: Solipsism [message #203368 ] |
Mo, 16 Januar 2006 09:49 |
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Raven wrote:
[proof that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing...]
M.
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