Oh good grief, there's no end to it. I guess I have to comment on dawkins' conflation of Christianity, Christian fundamentalism that is, with Islam. He just can't seem to make meaninful distinctions no matter what he's talking about. So he talks and talks and talks and talks about the strocities committed by Islam ahnd then just adds Christianity into the fundamentalist grab bag without evidence for it. Just that it's logical, he says, tht if you believe your god is the only God then you must feel you have a right to kill other people who ave other gods. Well, no we don't.
Old Testmaent religion is not New Testament religion and that's bwcause Old Testametn religion was about a single nation, a single people, a theocratic state chosen by god to be His own people. They ghad vowed to obey their God, they had willingly put themselves under covenatn with Him. None of that applies to anyone else. What we see in the Old Testament does teach us a lot about God's character, His Law, His role in history, and particularly His plan of recemption which he was to bring to the whole wrold thorough His chosen people.
But silly atheists like Dawkins are always trying to make us reposnble to boey llaws that there given to the Jesws and only to the Jews. And they get all indignant at our supposed hypocrisy when we claim not to be under those laws while at the same time we revere the Old Testament as a revelation of the mind of God, the character of the God we worship.
No,k Christianity is not a theocraxcy, it's not a single nation, it's a collection of people scattered throughout the world united by our belief in Jesus for salvartion for starters. We are not bound by the laws of the Old Testament both because they are mostly aimed at Israel, but also because being crucified with Christ we are set free from the Law altotehr. Of cousree we want to live by the Ten Commandments, but with the understanding that we cannot do it perfectly and that our salvation is not dependent on our obedience.
dawkins doesn't know what he's talkinga botu.
And he doesn't understand natural selection either. So there.
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