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

To: average joe who wrote (17188)	4/20/2004 6:21:56 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Love your enemy ...as long as they aren't living right next door to you ...and if they were---> then it was your divine duty to kill them all! (where have we heard of this before ?) If they were living within the borders of the "holy promised Land " , then you were permitted to annilhilate every trace of them right down to and including the livestock , and also where God is fighting on your side . This is where the original idea of "Jhiad" comes from the Hebrew ...or the word in Hebrew for the campaigns was ---> "Hareme" or holy war. God was seen right down there in the trenches hacking and hewing too. Deut 9:4-6: "When the Lord , your God drives out your enemy before you , do not say to yourself ; "the Lord has given me this inheritance because of my righteousness " . It is rather on account of the wickedness of these nations ...and to fulfill the promise he made to our ancestors Abraham , Isaac and Jacob . It is not for your righteousness....for you are a stiff necked people . God allows Joshua to command the sun and moon to stop dead in their tracks , so as to allow enough time to finish off routing the coalition of Cannanite Kings in one last great battle . Some 3000 yrs before Copernicus....some very righteous self-fuliling prophecy of genocide going on here<g> Joshua 10:14 Stiff~necks rule ! (well until the Babylonians , Assyrians, Alexander and the Romans came) ;-)

To: average joe who wrote (17188)	4/20/2004 8:12:37 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"Love your enemy, it really messes them up, is the best advice ever to come out of the bible." "A Christian wrote: I don't have the time to respond to everything, but right off the top, I suggest that "loving your enemy" is a teaching attributed directly to Jesus. The teaching predates Jesus. Do not return evil to your adversary; Requite with kindness the one who does evil to you, Maintain justice for your enemy, Be friendly to your enemy. - Akkadian Councils of Wisdom (from the ancient Babylonian civilization that existed two millennia before Jesus was born) ____________________________ Shame on him who strikes, greater shame on him who strikes back. Let us live happily, not hating those who hate us. Let us therefore overcome anger by kindness, evil by good, falsehood by truth. Do not hurt others in ways that would be hurtful to yourself. - Buddhist wisdom (written centuries before Jesus was born) ____________________________ MORE BUDDHIST WISDOM In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. - The Dhammapada ____________________________ Return love for hatred. Otherwise, when a great hatred is reconciled, some of it will surely remain. How can this end in goodness? Therefore the sage holds to the left hand of an agreement but does not expect what the other holder ought to do. Regard your neighbor's gain as your own and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. Whoever is self-centered cannot have the love of others. - Taoist wisdom (written centuries before Jesus was born) _________________ For additional "love your enemy" verses from the world's religions visit: WORLD SCRIPTURE : A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts, Dr. Andrew Wilson, Editor (International Religious Foundation, 1991) [ unification.net ]"