The number of people who do awful things while claiming to be Christian is incredible. If those are the remains of Jesus in the tomb then he'd be rolling in his grave knowing that so many evangalists preach and steal in his name and so many wars are started in his honour.
People have often questioned why Catholics have the crucifix as the symbol of Jesus and say that it's such a violent image. And it is a violent image but I've never known any Catholics who focus so strongly on the violence and torture that happened to Jesus, but these fundamentalists...as you said it's like they revel in it. I was discussing homosexuality and the Bible with someone recently and they would repeatedly go on about being washed in Jesus' blood and his suffering and dying to wipe the world of sin, etc, and it was just like she was quoting phrases that meant nothing. Any time I'd question her on anything she'd bring up the "I'm washed in Jesus' blood" stuff and the only way homosexuals can get to Heaven btw is if they stop their sinning and bathe in the blood too. It's like people don't have to really think about what they believe or what's moral or right, when questioned they just have to say "I'm washed in Jesus' blood" end of argument. And I don't know how anyone can torture, abuse and humiliate people and lock prisoners up with no rights, no lawyers, no trials and then say that they're doing it in God's name and that they'll be rewarded in Heaven for it. I think God's going to be more sympathetic to David Hicks than He will be to George W. Bush.
Sorry I did mean to write Anglicans, I was talking to someone about Protestants as I was typing.
The story you mentioned sounds really interesting! Firstly, time travel! Any story scores in my world if it has time travel ;D But it really sounds like a great read. There are a couple of books I reread recently that I like, they're both about religion and genetics and one is about a geneticist who finds relics from different churches and impregnates women in the hopes of having one of the children turn out to be a clone of Jesus and the other story is about a geneticist who tries to find the 'miracle strain' as he believed Jesus was a normal human, not the son of God, and that he had a 'miracle' gene that enabled him to heal others. Both were really interesting stories, I want to read them again now :)
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Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 07:15 am (UTC)People have often questioned why Catholics have the crucifix as the symbol of Jesus and say that it's such a violent image. And it is a violent image but I've never known any Catholics who focus so strongly on the violence and torture that happened to Jesus, but these fundamentalists...as you said it's like they revel in it. I was discussing homosexuality and the Bible with someone recently and they would repeatedly go on about being washed in Jesus' blood and his suffering and dying to wipe the world of sin, etc, and it was just like she was quoting phrases that meant nothing. Any time I'd question her on anything she'd bring up the "I'm washed in Jesus' blood" stuff and the only way homosexuals can get to Heaven btw is if they stop their sinning and bathe in the blood too. It's like people don't have to really think about what they believe or what's moral or right, when questioned they just have to say "I'm washed in Jesus' blood" end of argument. And I don't know how anyone can torture, abuse and humiliate people and lock prisoners up with no rights, no lawyers, no trials and then say that they're doing it in God's name and that they'll be rewarded in Heaven for it. I think God's going to be more sympathetic to David Hicks than He will be to George W. Bush.
Sorry I did mean to write Anglicans, I was talking to someone about Protestants as I was typing.
The story you mentioned sounds really interesting! Firstly, time travel! Any story scores in my world if it has time travel ;D But it really sounds like a great read. There are a couple of books I reread recently that I like, they're both about religion and genetics and one is about a geneticist who finds relics from different churches and impregnates women in the hopes of having one of the children turn out to be a clone of Jesus and the other story is about a geneticist who tries to find the 'miracle strain' as he believed Jesus was a normal human, not the son of God, and that he had a 'miracle' gene that enabled him to heal others. Both were really interesting stories, I want to read them again now :)