thunder_runner32 wrote:mesquite wrote:Thunder, could you please explain your use of the term "scapegoat" above. Did you read the link I provided?
No, actually I googled it and found another site, before I saw your link. It basically said that there were a bunch of factors that were causing tension and then some child was acting strangley and blamed it on witchcraft, and the townfolk releasing their tension, decided to blame their problems on witchcraft. This caused even more panic and it spread like fire.
The complexities of the witchcraft trials are much, much more involved than this. Do some reading on it...and you will see.
In any case, they were, as witch trials throughout history, motivated by religious considerations.
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au1929 wrote:thunder_runner32
The core belief was religious.
Did the world change with the advent of Jesus?
Not one bit. In fact as history has shown it was just and additional excuse for man's inhumanity to man. Religous intolerance and hatred.
The problems of man do not lie in religion, they lie in the perversion of the word that religions promote. So to speak, the problem is in men, not the faith they follow.
That is absolute blather, Thunder...and it is offered by you theist because you simply do not want to take responsibility for the horrors religion engender.
Quote: If men were to stick true to Christianity, there would be peace. Find one passage in the bible where Jesus tells us to be violent and intolerant.
Okay.
As I quoted earlier from Matthew chapter 5...Jesus proclaimed that he was not here to change the law...not one word; not one letter; not one stroke of one letter.
The law is contained in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
Read those two books and you will see more violence and intolerance than is contained in some of the worst trash Hollywood produces.
Insofar as Jesus said that he was not here to change any of that....he did "tell us to be violent and intolerant."
BBB...thanks for that information. For years I have maintained that the only way to combat the excesses of Islam...is to combat the excesses of ALL RELIGIONS.
We are not in a battle with Islam. We are in a battle with religion. And the do-gooders who pretend that religion is an asset for humanity ought to WAKE THE HELL UP...and finally realize that all this religion "I love god" bullshyt is destroying humanity.
WHAT DON'T YOU GET ABOUT JESUS?! I am not under the old/Jewish laws, that's why I'm not a Jew. I am held accountable by Jesus, not the laws of the Jews. You're right, he didn't change the laws, he made it so that we didn't have to answer to the Jewish laws. That's why there is a new testament to men.