to whoever it was that said its people that should be blamed rather than god, how is it that god is responsible for all the good but he doesnt take credit for all the bad in this world? its like parents have to be responsible for the actions of their children. when it comes down to it, if god created the wrold then hes responsible for it and he created (pardon my pun) a hell of a lot of evil

One of our blog vocabulary words for the day? “Anabaptists.” Who rejected any tie between religion and government?

If Muslims and Jews and Christians are fighting, I don’t need to say one is right; I can just observe that … lots of religious people are now fighting. None of the major parties here are atheists, note.

Liberal hippies might have their problems; but they did not start any wars. Conservative Muslims and Christians like George Bush, did that.

Dr. G,
I was born in 1967, the start of the Vietnam War. Who protested?
The liberal universities, the hippies, the flower children. And what were these universities teaching hippies and flower children?

Timothy Leary was teaching “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.” Another thing for your scientific mind to think about was this drug guru also said “Science is all metaphor”.

Liberalism is at the heart of rebellion to the word of God. These so called ‘prophets of the new age” spreading the sublime joy and peace of the Age of Aquarius just merely succeeded in getting a nation of promising youth hooked on drugs, free love and rebellion to any authority. Can you tell me these proponents were correct in telling American youth that the rebellion against authority was right?

I want to know this, why is it liberals call American aggressive when it comes to war, but never holding other countries for their aggression to their own people and to those around them? Why did no one of the liberal media call Saddam Hussein evil for killing Khurds? But George Bush was called an Imperialist. Do we have American colonies established there? Do we have American colonies established anywhere in the world? You know that we don’t so it is wrong to say we are Imperialistic, but if you look into and see who was actually making the accusation, it was the individual Muslim men who bought western media outlets. Then blaming it on Zionism. Who is making the Zionist claims? The Islamic fundamentalists.

Sharia law is now valid in England. Who are the Imperialists? How long will it be until these Imperialists who seek to destroy our culture introduce Sharia in America? It happened already, because people called good evil, and evil good. War is evil, but peace through subjugation is just as evil. Was this a result of religion or a result of man turning away from religion?

An interesting fact, Joseph Stalin killed 10,000,000 people in the name of the anti-religion Communism, China has killed many more millions in the name of anti-religion Communism (which I believe was the proponents of the Korean conflict), and the list goes on.
At the end of WW2, over 25,000,000 people were killed, that is as many people who live in Los Angeles. Who started that war? It was not the Americans.

If you will care to admit it, WW2 had national days of prayers. There was one on the day of the invasion of Normandy, there was a national day of prayer for the Apollo 13 mission. There were national days of prayer for many events but when it came to the 1970s nobody cared any more. American youth were spoonfed the lie of rebellion and now we are reaping the harvest. There is no respect for authority in any capacity except for those who are in the liberal university systems. Before you assume, I went to Wright State University. This rebellion is not from religion, but the opposite. Does religion cause violence? No, rebellion against the word of God causes violence.

There were many violent leftists; almost as many as .. right wingers and religionists.

The central wars and violence of the very present are caused by religion. Tim McVeigh? Run Run Rudolph, bombing abortion centers? Religious Muslims destroying the World Trade Center?

But last but not least, Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are agnotistics doing as much as that right now?

Though many deaths have been caused by atheists agnostics in the 20th century, in the previous many centuries, probably a) most were caused by or aggravated by religion; and b) the number of deaths caused by religion, in the past, was probably higher, by pecentrage of world population at the time. When the Crudades killed a few hundred thousand (not counting women and children; starving a displaced persons?) … a few hundred thousand was a lot of people.

And many regimes said to be atheistic, were Christian. From c) my time in Germany, I know that the allegedly “atheist” Nazis who killed so many, were often “good” Catholics (above).

Indeed, d) most wars credited to atheists, had religion on the other side. People like to say that the evil Russian Revolutionaries killed millions. But who fought them? It was the Christians who opposed the Russian Revolution. And it takes two side to tango. Why pick on one side? It took two to make that fight.

Maybe e) we should avoid being smug about being Christians; no doubt it is always good to speak for God. But isn’t there a temptation to Vanity there?

I’m glad Christians are now so kind and understanding today? So eager to look for the beam in their own eye? To see the sins in themselves, and not just everybody else?

I was born in the 50′s … at the start of the Korean War. That is how I would respond to that.

Susan,
And we should continue to be good to Jews, and the Jews will say we need to be good to all people. I saw an interesting quote today and it is worth sharing I suppose for this post…

David Horowitz, former member of Black Panther Party, said this….

“The existence of a Murder Incorporated in the heart of the American left is something the left really doesn’t want to know or think about. Such knowledge would refute its most cherished self-understandings and beliefs. It would undermine the sense of righteous indignation that is the crucial starting point of a progressive attitude. It would explode the myths on which the attitude depends.
David Horowitz, former member, on the Black Panthers; ‘Black Murder Inc.’; in Hating Whitey, Spence Publishing Company, 2000; Panther leader Bobby Seale was born on October 22, 1936 ”

Does religion cause violence? I thought the left was more anti-religious. Hmmm, good things to think about.

Well Bill Maher says it does. I saw him in a movie delivering pizza, when did he become the religious expert?

Hello Paul,
I have a question which is essentially off-topic, but I’ve been reading your incoming comments today and decided to ask anyway. On the way home from school my son (who’s 12) asked me if the 50′s were a good time in this country. Then he said that his Bible teacher told them that it was because the US was being good to the Jews.
How would you respond to that?

After finally reading it – I like your introduction somewhat. Though I do wonder if we can realistically separate a “good” “essence” in Christianity, and go with that. And really manage to leave the “incidentals” like the devisiveness of “one” truth, behind.

Can you really get one without the other? Without letting people know that … some old things are getting thrown out?

Of course the scribes were encouraged to mix the “new” with the “old,” and do stranger things that this, with the holy books in their care.

And for that matter, Jesus saw this .. and suggested that one day the new patches would tear loose of the old material. This may refer to the New Testament & covenant, separating from the Old Testament; Christianity from Judaism. Though the principle could be equally applied today, perhaps.