Hmmm
posted by Matt Friedeman @ 12:23 PM
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world. (William Booth)
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...and yet if I am offended by a crucifix in urine, or depictions of Christ as a homosexual, and on and on and on...I am the intolerant bigot. Go figure.
No one likes to have their beliefs challenged in any way. The more primative the people, the more primative the response.
In the Old Testament, Yahweh ordered the destruction of other people's religions and their gods. It was a primative time.
Today it's a flood of phone calls to challenge a poorly written program called "The Book of Daniel". Or, as Tommy pointed out, protesting something that otherwise would not have seen the light of day had Christians not brought it to our attention
C'mon JBryan -
You have to admit that Christians are the only group on the planet that are fair game for ridicule (I didn't say it's the only group that IS ridiculed - but the only one against which ridicule is accepted by society at large - especially accepted by the harbingers of "tolerance.").
Can you even conceive of a tv program in the U.S. depicting Islam in the same light that the "Book of Daniel" cast on Christianity?
Can you imagine "The Last Temptation of Mohammed?"
Were they to be a reality, do you think a "flood of phone calls" would be the result?
Or would there be riots and bloodshed in the streets?
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