DLL, I have no problem with the tone of your letter. I appreciate frankness. Let's be frank about Christendom:
Have you heard of the Crusades?
The Inquisition?
The 100 year's war?
The 30 year's war?
The Spanish murder of Anawaks, Caribes, Incas, and natives of Central and South America in the name of Christianization?
The slaveships which carried millions to doom & torture?
Italy's war against Ethiopia?
European genocide against any people that stood in their way.
The destruction of 400 American Indian nations and theft of their land?
Hawaiians say: The missionaries taught us to pray; while our heads were bowed they stole our land!
World Wars I and II?
Which church in which country unitedly refused to participate in these atrocities? When the same denominational prelates on each side prayed for victory, to which did God give preference? The sea of blood shed in the name of Christ cannot be blotted with words! In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor...yet thou saidst, "I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me." Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee
Imagine, DLL, if the Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Baptists, Pentacostals, Mormons, Church of Christ, Methodists, Presbyterians, Calvinists, Reformed, Orthodox, Christian Scientists, Unitarians threw down their weapons in allegiance to the Prince of Peace...how would Jesus feel?
Supposed they refused to do so...How would Jesus feel? "When the war broke out the Witnesses at Sachsenhausen concentration were invited to volunteer for military service. Each refusal was followed by the shooting of ten men from their ranks. After 40 victims had been killed the SS desisted. In Buchenwald this appeal to the Witnesses was made on 9/6/39: "You know that war has broken out and that the German nation is in danger. If anyone of you refuses to fight against France or England, all of you must die!" Two SS companies with full equipment were drawn up by the gatehouse. Not a single Jehovah's Witnesses answered the officer's appeal to fight for Germany." THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HELL by Eugen Kogon. Translated from the German Berkley Books, New York. Our record of stalwart opposition to Hitlerism takes much space in the Holocaust Museum.
I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, that you have love among yourselves. John 13:34-5 NWT
You suggest I leave Jehovah's Witnesses. Tell me where to go, Don. Locate for me a Christian people absolutely non-nationalistic, entirely integrated, give titles to no men, preach the good news worldwide without cost and have deep understanding and concern for bible prophecy. Oh yes...they must obey the apostles' letter at Acts 15:29.
The contributions to Paul's work was no pattern for the salary, houses & cars modern denominations set their clergy up with. Check the budget of any church and see where most of the money goes. The early Christians understood all were to spread the gospel. Modern Christendomites proclaim: I never discuss religion! Christendom isn't Christianity! Why defend it? Revelation 18:4
Respectfully
Don Martini
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