[Vision2020] True Muslims and True Americans

[Art Deco]

Here's another to add to the list below:

>From Credenda/Agenda by Gregory Dickison [Comments added]:

http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm

"The civil magistrate is the minister of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer (Rom. 13:4). God has not left his civil minister without guidance on how to exercise his office. The Scriptures set forth clear standards of judgment for many offenses. Capital crimes, for example, include premeditated killing (murder), kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's parents..."

"In contemporary American jurisprudence, none of these offenses is punishable by death, with the occasional exception of murder. The magistrates have dispensed with God's standards of justice. Some Christians believe this is an improvement. They would be horrified to think that the "harsh" penalties of the law should still be applied. Sometimes this is the result of the mistaken belief that the Old Testament has no further application after the advent of Christ. This is an exegetical problem. Too often, it is the result of a sinful view of the criminal. This sin is called pity."

"If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,". . . you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him..." [Heresy: Beware, ye not of the cult (including unconverted Jews)!]

"If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out the hand and seizes him by the genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her..." 

God commands the judge to evaluate the crime rather than the criminal. If the crime is one for which God requires death, then death must be the punishment. Your eye shall not pity. Neither is the repentance of the accused relevant to the imposition of the sentence. 

"Thus, the Bible teaches that pity is not an option where God has decided the matter. The [civil] magistrate, God's minister, is to faithfully execute justice according to God's standard, not man's... This means that we must return to an obedience which confines pity within the bounds which God has established for us."

Let's see:

Murder (by even a child), kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, cursing one's parents, heresy, etc. are to be punished by death (by stoning) according to Gregor and by the extension of the Cult Master's statements, all of the Christ Church Cult.



----- Original Message ----- 
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] True Muslims and True Americans


> nickgier wrote:
> 
> [[ Respecting all religious beliefs?  It is a no brainer!!! ]]
> 
> Truer words were never spoken. Only a person with no brains could "respect 
> all religious beliefs" -- either brainless or a HYPOCRITICAL ("There are 
> some chilling parallels between Christian and Islamic fundamentalists") 
> LIAR.
> 
> I'm all for respecting all human beings as the image-bearers of the living 
> God. But don't insult anyone's intelligence by spewing nonsense about 
> respecting all religious beliefs. It isn't even possible to respect all 
> religious beliefs and as a simple matter of fact nobody does.
> 
> Here are just a few of a vast number of religious beliefs that are not 
> worthy of respect, and I'm sure anyone can think of more with no difficulty:
> 
> * The religious beliefs of Jim Jones in the Guyana jungle
> * The religious beliefs behind the custom of burning alive newly widowed 
> women in India
> * The religious beliefs behind the practice of human sacrifice in ancient 
> Mesoamerican cultures
> 
> Instead of lying about respecting all religious beliefs, how about 
> respecting honesty and truthfulness for a change?
> 
> -- Princess Sushitushi
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