From: lite12noSPAM@hotmail.NOspam   
      
   personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
   > there ya go again...   
   > TRUE Christianity is peace-loving and forgiving.   
   > Christian IDIOTS (like Popes, Presidents, politicians, and other political   
   > figures) are warlike and oppressive.   
   >   
      
   There is no such thing as "TRUE Christianity", only the merits of   
   Christians acting on a doctrine of their own interpretation.   
      
   >   
   > Christianity is not intended to be aggressive, but there is a "destiny" or   
   > "great commission" (again, the results of a twit apostle...) to go ye   
   > therefore, teaching all nations, or some such broo-ha-ha.  It doesn't say   
   > "do this by the sword" -- like the Islamic/Muslim faith teaches.   
   >   
      
   "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come   
   to bring peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:34)   
      
   >   
   > The NT Christian ethic is actually based upon a loving and forgiving God,   
   > who causes the sun to shine on *both* the good *and* the evil...   
   >   
      
   "...but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven,   
   either in this age or the age to come." (Mathew 12:32)   
      
   "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him   
   that loves violence." (Psalms 11:5)   
      
   "I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy." (Jer 13:14)   
   "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and   
   spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling."   
      
   -Grant   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)