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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Ben Shapiro :: Townhall.com Columnist
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by Ben Shapiro
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RedWhite&Blue
I agree with everythign you said.

EVERYONE who uses either the "...but in 311 AD the Christians..." or the "In DoesntApplyToChristiansicus Chapter 3:19 God says to kill the Cannanites in a specific historical context that hasn't existed in 3000 years" counter-argument (such that it is) is disingenious.

If those things the person is citing are truely troubling to them then Islam must trouble them 1000000 times more so because anything that is "bad" about Biblical or Historical Christianity is also manifested by Islam by design and Islam is designed specifically to promote all of those things that are evil and violent.

But since Islam doesn't appear to bother them then neither do the examples they provide.

Its the most dishonest of rhetorical tricks.

JohnCitizen
I always find it amusing how people like you who fear Christianity have to reach all the way back to 1066 AD to find an example of violence. I also find it funny that you forget that the Crusades were fought against an enemy that had aggressively conquered Christian lands for hundreds of years and were still advancing. And that most people at the time could not read the Bible and didn't know what it teaches. Since the Bible was restored to the people in the Protestant Reformation and subsequent Catholic reforms, the world has seen less and less of these things from Christians. Which means the Bible wasn't the problem, it was that people were ignorant of it and not observing its principles.

But most of all it's funny how people like you who dredge up these centuries-old abberations, you place them in the context of contemporary morality. In which context no society at that time satisfies modern standards. In fact, studied in light of other nations at the time, Christianity has an impressive record. So let's live in the present, shall we?

Certitude cuts both ways. Communists were certain their radical social experiment would work, no matter if they had to kill millions of people to impliment it. Liberals are certain their radical social experiment will work, no matter if they have to allow millions of babies to be killed to impliment it. You see, it's not whether a person is certain or not, it's whether he/she is right about what he/she is sure of. For example, it's not wrong to be certain that if you jump off a 200 foot cliff you'll probably die. But if you're certain that jumping off a 200 foot cliff will be fun and not result in any injuries, that's a dangerous certainty because it's wrong.

I think at some level you realize this, because you seem pretty certain about every statement you make. So I suppose you would agree that certainty is not a problem in and of itself. The problem is, libs like you are certain that Christianity is evil and don't realize a Christian culture layed the foundation of a nation in which you enjoy a relatively fantastic amount of personal liberty and opportunity. So you seek to destroy Christian cultural expression, not understanding how far into the toilet you will drag this beautiful nation.
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