2007-08-11 08:52:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
W-a-r and T-o-r-t-u-r-e
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Anne Coulter, Christian Peace Activist
Conquer,Convert or kill them.
"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.
This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.
The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.
The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.
These “pagans” (Islam and Judaism) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)
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2007-08-11 08:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by kloneme 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Most Holy Trinity is synonymous with orthodox Christianity. If you don't worship the Trinity you don't worship the God of Christianity. Rapture theology on the other hand is clearly a modern tradition of men that no Christian ever heard of before the 19th Century. One more example of the folly of trying to find truth through unauthoritative personal interpretations of early Catholic writings.
2007-08-11 16:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-08-11 16:02:08 · answer #3 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should man be a pauper or a cynic or should man be allowed to accept his true birthright which is that of Unity or Oneness with "God"?
The answer to this question is in your heart and hands!
There can be only "One God".
2007-08-11 16:11:39 · answer #4 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All theology is misguided.
2007-08-11 16:00:26 · answer #5 · answered by Sapere Aude 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Neither are misguided.
2007-08-11 16:09:28 · answer #6 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/rapture.html
2007-08-11 16:09:56 · answer #7 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋