<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">For my money, all religious writings have no more status than Aesop's Fables - they are moral tales designed to coax humans into a functioning society, or threaten them - whatever works! Metaphors all and we know how poorly humans deal with those or any other abstractions.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:25 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:14 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">> The problem with that is that the Old Testament, which is common to Jews, Christians and Islam, specifically says to kill unbelievers. God killed millions, or so they wrote. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><font size="4">Yes but however bad the Old Testament's recommendations are in how to treat unbelievers the Koran's ideas on that subject are 10 times worse. And although in some ways the New Testament is kinder and gentler than the Old in other ways it is not. Yahweh may be the most unpleasant character in all of fiction but at least when you were dead he was through messing around with you; but when you kick the bucket Jesus is just getting warmed up and is determined to torturer you at a intensity level beyond human imagination and to keep doing it not for an astronomical number of years but for an INFINITE number of years. But never forget, He loves you! <br>
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