Ridiculous. Any idea can be warped enough to use as justification for some stupid action. Take Japanese nationalism, the concept of Bushido and marry that with Kamikazi pilots.
Auto accidents account for the fifth-highest leading cause of death in the U.S.; Heart-disease--influenced in no small way by obesity--is the highest. Maybe cars and cake aren't as safe as you think?
Under that definition, anything is a threat. Driving a car has the potential to be harmful, eating cake has the potential to be harmful, voting for Obama has the potential to be harmful.
Ergo...
That's quite the misleading statement. A number of Catholics and Lutherans also formed widespread resistance groups. Most notably, of course, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us. A mad dash to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I'm resolved to do it this time, having failed the last three times. Anyone else?
"Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust of your feet. Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment for that city."
In other words, people who don't receive Christ...
No. It has no relevance. Regardless of whether the Bible has violent passages or is a violent religion. His argument is "The Qur'an condones and encourages violence, thus Islam is violent." That is the argument you must rebut.
I believe that the belief system is widely to blame--to be remarkably self serving, I'll simply quote my earlier post.
To Wing: Denomination is kind of hard for me to pin down. I'd describe my theology as "Reformed".
Let me break it down for you. The Old Testament laws consist of the Ten Commandments and the Levitical Laws. The Ten Commandments basically cover every aspect of man's relationship with both God and man. The Levitical laws are specific sacrificial, laws of usury, laws of purification and laws of...