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MEMBER BLOG TAG: greed

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:32PM
 
The Bible Made Me Do It
Tags: assassination, genocide, bigotry, greed
 
Remember the good old days when it was the devil who made people do bad things? In the supercharged religiosity of today, the politically religious claim the Bible is the culprit that tempts them to hatred, separatism, exceptionalism, bigotry, and economic excess. It’s the Bible that requires the especially religious to own churches, ranches, extravagant homes, jet airplanes and politicians. The Bible makes some call for the assassination of democratically elected political leaders in other countries, and others to pray for the death of Barack Obama. It compels some to kill doctors who put the life, health and welfare of women above that of a fertilized cell. The Bible requires others to carry Christianity into Muslim countries at the point of a bayonet, lobby for the...
 
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