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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (2901)	10/29/2000 10:59:34 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Many Christians justify war based on the Bible, look at Ireland and Yugoslavia. Boy, Christ sure has a lot to answer for there. Pollution. A lot of Christians justify pollution by pointing out the "dominion" statement in Genesis. Same thing for hunting animals into extinction. The moral code of Jesus involved individual misconduct. His fear of the State and his "Render unto Ceasars" are understandable for a man. It does not appear that He knew anything about polution or animal extinction or the like. Life was not understood in terms of science in those days. Indeed, Jesus destroyed a perfectly good fig tree because he was angry. He destroyed a couple of thousand pigs needlessly and thus destroyed the economic life of the farmer that kept them. An ecological ethic? An economic ethic? NO. An ethic of living an abject life of sujugation to those around you because the next life was the only one that mattered? Yes. Very very few Christians follow the teachings of Jesus. Who would want to live like that? So they don't.