For those of you concerned with events beyond the 3-ring circus of the current campaign of clowns and cretins, I present you with a few nuggets concerning the "Religion of Peace" for your edification and commentary.

Its how far too many are interpreting it. THATS the real issue.

but as much as I loathe the Christian faith, even I have to concede that while there are some people who take the bible literally and do horrible things in the name of Christ, they are dwarfed in numbers by the number of Muslims who take this horseshit literally and are willing to kill and die because of some dumb shit written in a book written when mankind was barely out of the fucking Stone Age.

Any group of people who gather themselves in considerable numbers,  to watch a crowd  stoning women to death for violating  laws of men, are much worse  than cave men.
   
  I'd  convert to Christianity long before I'd give one thoughtful  iota of respect, to  the misogynist pedophile, Mohammed.
   
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Muslim+woman+stoned+to+death
   

The creation of Christianity was certainly the most significant reformation. While the Old Testament certainly has many passages whose brutality rivals those in the Quran, The New Testament and the teaching of Jesus Christ (solely a Christian document) is far more peaceful and non-violent than the Old Testament. The vast majority of Christians now follow the NT in their daily lives rather than the OT.

The last time I said anything to you, it was to acknowledge I was the one who had you shut down for a month and to let you know I'd have no problem doing it again if only to grant a respite to this forum from your incessant snarky self-satisfying smugness. So usually, I would suggest you go start your own thread so you can have someone to talk to.  

Though I don't think your education hypothesis is off base. Some of the most tolerant Muslim populations, in history, hailed from places like Constantinople (Turkey), and Alexandria (Egypt). Both very affluent and educated areas. So, in my book affluence and education tend to set the level of modernity in a given group of Muslims. It's the extremely poor and oppressed Muslims who buy into the more fundamentalist beliefs regarding the Qumran. And, it's from these fundamentalist that the Muslim terrorist come from; Osama bin laden, and some of the leaders of Al Queda and ISIL being the major exceptions. So, I believe the more rapidly we can influence increase modernity in these groups the less antagonistic they will be toward us.

'painting with a broad brush.' Read a journal such a Sojourners and you will see there are plenty of Christians who practice social justice and are against the death penalty. And, don't fool yourself, Trump ain't no Christian.  

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He is one of poor relying on Christian handouts for survival. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you, not to mention the blatant hypocrisy.

On another note, the modern day, liberal defintion of "social justice" is not biblical based, at least not based on how Christ lived according to the New Testament.  

Quotes from the Bible daffy just posted I'm thinking that daffy is a thumper.
 
Guess one could say he is a closet thumper.  
 
Hey maybe he and backstabber go to Bible study together.  
 
 
Thank you

"modern day, liberal defintion of 'social justice'"  from a reputable source, I may help you out with that!  

a vast majority, as in "'How do the "vast majority' of Christians follow the New Testament?"  

Where Christ advanced the modern day liberal notion of social justice. I know of no such story from the bible.

Wouldn't that be a dodge? You can't come up with one example. Fair enough. That was the only point I was making matt.

How do you think Jim over at Sojourners would define it? Then based on that definition, give me an example from Jesus's life. Maybe you can prove me wrong.  

"On another note, the modern day, liberal defintion of "social justice" is not biblical based, at least not based on how Christ lived according to the New Testament."

The Bible may literally advocate  slavery, but no Christian nation has practiced slavery in over 100 years. It may advocate (arguably) killing a child for disrespecting a parent, but there have been no church or temple approved of cases in 2,000 years (only individuals acting without approval)

In secular Islamic nations like Turkey, Sharia law is not applied; in many other Islamic nations, only small portions of the Quran are codified in the criminal justice laws and certainly not the “kill the infidels” portions.

Social justice as expressed today is all about curing the ills of society and government, primarily or almost entirely through the actions of government.

You are blind if you don't realize Bible followers are immensely more peaceful than  Mohammed's clans, wherever they reside, regardless of legality of Sharia decrees.
  The New Testament is the Bible of Christians.
   
   You have evidence of numerous  Bible thumpers, living  in the deep hills where laws are often not followed, killing their children for adultery or stoning to death a married adulteress ?  
   
  I find it odd though  par for the course of blatant hypocrisy, an opponent of water boarding terrorists neglects to  see with his own blind eyes, Sharia law in countries where  criminals are publicly flogged.  
  In my opinion most of the UAE, more than 25% of Nigerian states, Yemen, Mauritania, Sudan,
Maldives, Pakistan, Qatar, the two you mentioned{Iran and Saudi Arabia} and others that slipped my mind are die hard enforcers of Sharia law.
 In the land of the free and home of the brave we have many Koran followers, in training, hoping for the next generation of Sharia rule.

Jesus spoke of charity, and that is what I was alluding to.

FIrst, the fact that we get cheap labor over seas is far from slavery.  Before a company like Nike goes to Vietnam, the average person is making a few dollars a month.  U.S. companies always pay far more than the "prevaling" wage, so people are not really hurt.

Re: BINGO! And, that's the error both you and Ed make!

Conflating the ends with the means!  ;

It's theoretically OK for compassionate liberals to outsource their Christian deeds to government, so you are correct it is a different means to a hopeful end. But it really does not follow the teachings of Jesus and it frequently results in so many unintended un-Christian consequences (and for most it is funded in an involuntary method).

is there any place is Jesus' words where he says the government, at that time, the one he would have recognized, which would have been the theocracy made up of the Priests, and the Sanhedrin, should not concern themselves with issues of social justice?

comparing a Old Testament 50 year event to what happens to everyone's paycheck. And still you have nothing to say about anything I posted.

my “blindness” and “hypocrisy:

you've got no reasonable argument against my response. So, I accept your retreat. Perhaps it's time for you to go back on another sabbatical from me!  

explicitly suggest how you spend your time during my suggested sabbatical, you'll just have to use your imagination as to my idea.

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