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To: Bilow who wrote (204438)	9/26/2006 10:59:21 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

You'll like this site! All the worst of the Bible: evilbible.com "God Kills 70,000 Men Over a Census (God punishes David for ordering a census of his people.) Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you. So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will: either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me. David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. (1 Chronicles 21:9-14 WEB)"

To: Bilow who wrote (204438)	9/27/2006 6:21:02 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The same principle applies to all the other various religious literature -- it can always be made to look bad when taken out of context. That's true. Nevertheless, a religion is what it is, and while Political Correctness may strive to reduce all tenets of all religions to banal platitudes like "a person is just a person, we're all the same under the skin," it's a silly argument. It's true that human beings are more or less the same, but that doesn't mean that we all behave the same, otherwise people who belong to groups like Aryan Nation, MS-13, the Crips, and the Bloods would be able to hold hands and sing "Cumbayah" together in harmony. I suppose you will now argue that Aryan Nation, MS-13 and the Crips and the Bloods are all the same because they all practice racial violence and therefore there's no difference between them? The parts of the Koran that were written when Mohammed was in Mecca (the early bits, when he was weaker politically) were superceded by what was written when he went to Medina, and was victorious against his enemies. You could look it up. From the perspective of non-Muslims, the early books of the Koran are much nicer than the later books, before Mohammed started killing his enemies wholesale, and directing his followrs to put non-believers to the sword, or enslave them, capture their women for concubines, and pillage and plunder their property. But don't expect any critique of Islam from a Muslim. That's punishable by death, not an ideal threat these days. (Another difference from any other religion on earth. The Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi in Jerusalem, and so forth, don't issue fatwas against people who criticize their religion.)