Smarter than you: Comparative religion, edition

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Bozita (25,837 posts)

 Christian missionary group with pig's head taunt Arab-Americans at Dearborn festival
Last edited Sat Jun 16, 2012, 03:32 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Source: Detroit Free Press

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People making morons of themselves but then DU refuses to be 2nd to anybody:

proud2BlibKansan (91,985 posts)
9. Would they do this at a Jewish festival?

xxqqqzme (12,285 posts)
13. That was my second thought

Do they show up at a synagogue on Friday at Sunset with their pig's head?

My first thought was 'What a horrible thing to do to an intelligent animal'.

No.

Beause Jews don't go around terrorizing every society they participate in.

kurtzapril4 (455 posts)
30. It's PERFECTLY christian

There's tons of hatin', killin', rapin', enslavin', genocidin' etc., etc., etc. in the bible. All approved of, and/or carried out by god himself or his followers. So I'd say these people were perfect christians, according to the example set forth in the bible. They're just following the rules.

obamanut2012 (3,514 posts)
58. That's in the OT

Not much in the NT, except for some of Paul's stuff, and he wasn't Jesus Christ.

kurtzapril4 (455 posts)
63. That's fine, but it's still in the bible

and the bible promotes these behaviours. There is no way to get around it, disown it, or explain it away. These people are good christians according to the book they go by. We studied the WHOLE bible at bible school, not just the feel-good jesus part. Unless christians somehow don't worship god any more.

atreides1 (9,411 posts)
73. Yes those things are in the Bible

But it has nothing to do with Christianity, since Christianity didn't exist during the time covered in the Old Testament!

It's weird that they never discuss which societies were enslaved and/or ethnically cleansed.

I feel as grieved for the eradicated followers of Astaroth and Molech as I do the Nazis...

...or Muslims...

...for the exact same reasons.

BTW - If promoting rape, murder and gonocide within a religious text is wrong (and the Bible doesn't promote, it merely chronicles) then why are they defending Islam?

Arugula Latte (36,291 posts)
88. But Christians still believe in the murderous asshole Old Testament all-powerful diety.

The History of Genocide

And it goes on like that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014145382


ETA:

Sen. Walter Sobchak (5,259 posts)
44. Where the **** does one obtain a pigs head?

For this purpose?

jberryhill (23,731 posts)
68. Usually at the front end of a pig.

Any other questions?

 

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proud2BlibKansan (91,985 posts)
9. Would they do this at a Jewish festival?

I wouldn't put it past your lot.

[ChuckJ]

obamanut2012 (3,514 posts)
58. That's in the OT

Not much in the NT, except for some of Paul's stuff, and he wasn't Jesus Christ.

Paul pisses Satan off. The minions of Satan, a large number of which are libs, are also not big fans of Paul.

Paul is the antithesis of the Democrat Party.

1Cr 13:1-13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

[jukin]

Sounds like free speech just as much as burning the US flag does.

IIRC Dearborn lost a shit pot of money squelching Christian free speech a few years ago. Don't think they will try that again.