Caller at 47:25:
“America was founded on the Christian religion”
No, it wasn’t. Jefferson and many others among the Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians. They often referred to “Providence” instead of Yahweh or Jesus.
And Christians have often been satanically savage.
“This is the temper of Puritanism…. When the Puritans obtained the control of Parliament, almost the first act they passed was one which doomed to death every man and woman who dared to oppose their opinions. Wherever it obtained power it inaugurated a reign of terror. At the same time, it cut off the heads of those who disputed it in Holland, burnt them alive at Geneva, drowned them in Zurich, and hanged them in England and Scotland. And all the time that they were committing these crimes against freedom, they took to themselves the title of ‘Friends of civil and religious liberty.’ … They bored holes through Quakers tongues with red hot irons at Boston, drowned the Baptists at Salem…. Governor John Endicott said to some harmless Quaker women who came from England to Boston: ‘Take heed that ye break not our ecclesiastical laws, for then ye are sure to stretch by the halter.’ …
“December 22d, 1662, Ann Coleman, Mary Tomkins, and Alice Ambrose, for being Quakers, were sentenced to be tied to the cart-tail, and whipped on their naked backs, through eleven towns, a distance of nearly eighty miles. Whatever disagreed with the opinions of the Puritans, was held as a crime to be punished with imprisonment and death. That is the moral temper of Puritanism still…. It has always been an element of discord and persecution on this Continent…. It burned down a Catholic Convent near Boston a few years ago.” (The Old Guard, March 1863, pp. 58–59)
I would hate to live in a country based on that religion.
In the early centuries A.D., there were superior forms of Christianity that rejected the Old Testament. Unfortunately, those sects were destroyed by the Christians who were savages.
“He may never even have heard of Marcion, Manichaeus, and the leaders of quite a few other early Christian sects that had numerous adherents and flourishing congregations in many parts of the Roman Empire until the gang called The Fathers of the Church got control of the government and could use its military power to suppress competition….
“It was characteristic of those early sects that they, like all men of sound judgement and unperverted instincts, were revolted by the ‘Old Testament’ and its record of foul crimes perpetrated by Yahweh on behalf of his Chosen People of brigands and marauders. They accordingly concluded, as did Marcion, that Yahweh was an inferior and renegade god, a mere demiurge, or forthrightly identified the Jews’ god with Satan, the supreme god of pure evil. They, however, had their own ‘New Testaments’ and believed Jesus to be an emanation of a far different and superior god, a good and righteous god, who would eventually destroy the author of evil and all his army of superhuman and human devils.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “A BIBLE STUDENT”; Liberty Bell, Dec. 1984)
Let’s say there is sect A, which doesn’t think that it has the right to use violence to eliminate its competition, and there is sect B, which does think that it has the right to use violence to eliminate its competition.
Sect B has powerful tools at its disposal that are not available to sect A.
Which of the two sects is more likely to disappear?
All too often in this world, the psychopaths triumph.
Caller at 47:25:
“America was founded on the Christian religion”
No, it wasn’t. Jefferson and many others among the Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians. They often referred to “Providence” instead of Yahweh or Jesus.
And Christians have often been satanically savage.
“This is the temper of Puritanism…. When the Puritans obtained the control of Parliament, almost the first act they passed was one which doomed to death every man and woman who dared to oppose their opinions. Wherever it obtained power it inaugurated a reign of terror. At the same time, it cut off the heads of those who disputed it in Holland, burnt them alive at Geneva, drowned them in Zurich, and hanged them in England and Scotland. And all the time that they were committing these crimes against freedom, they took to themselves the title of ‘Friends of civil and religious liberty.’ … They bored holes through Quakers tongues with red hot irons at Boston, drowned the Baptists at Salem…. Governor John Endicott said to some harmless Quaker women who came from England to Boston: ‘Take heed that ye break not our ecclesiastical laws, for then ye are sure to stretch by the halter.’ …
“December 22d, 1662, Ann Coleman, Mary Tomkins, and Alice Ambrose, for being Quakers, were sentenced to be tied to the cart-tail, and whipped on their naked backs, through eleven towns, a distance of nearly eighty miles. Whatever disagreed with the opinions of the Puritans, was held as a crime to be punished with imprisonment and death. That is the moral temper of Puritanism still…. It has always been an element of discord and persecution on this Continent…. It burned down a Catholic Convent near Boston a few years ago.” (The Old Guard, March 1863, pp. 58–59)
I would hate to live in a country based on that religion.
In the early centuries A.D., there were superior forms of Christianity that rejected the Old Testament. Unfortunately, those sects were destroyed by the Christians who were savages.
“He may never even have heard of Marcion, Manichaeus, and the leaders of quite a few other early Christian sects that had numerous adherents and flourishing congregations in many parts of the Roman Empire until the gang called The Fathers of the Church got control of the government and could use its military power to suppress competition….
“It was characteristic of those early sects that they, like all men of sound judgement and unperverted instincts, were revolted by the ‘Old Testament’ and its record of foul crimes perpetrated by Yahweh on behalf of his Chosen People of brigands and marauders. They accordingly concluded, as did Marcion, that Yahweh was an inferior and renegade god, a mere demiurge, or forthrightly identified the Jews’ god with Satan, the supreme god of pure evil. They, however, had their own ‘New Testaments’ and believed Jesus to be an emanation of a far different and superior god, a good and righteous god, who would eventually destroy the author of evil and all his army of superhuman and human devils.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “A BIBLE STUDENT”; Liberty Bell, Dec. 1984)
Let’s say there is sect A, which doesn’t think that it has the right to use violence to eliminate its competition, and there is sect B, which does think that it has the right to use violence to eliminate its competition.
Sect B has powerful tools at its disposal that are not available to sect A.
Which of the two sects is more likely to disappear?
All too often in this world, the psychopaths triumph.