A national columnist does an excellent job of misinterpreting Christianity, and even states he's a Christian himself. by Kevin Roeten
(conservative)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Many "alleged" Christians fail to see typical Christian responses to evil in the world. In the haste to stop the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, thousands of Christians signed up to go and fight. But closely scrutinize who says Christians stood back and watched in silence.
Few mention Pope Pius XXII's secret actions to transport as many Christians as possible out of Nazi Germany, or the hundreds of Catholics that worked tirelessly to save as many Jews and Christians from death camps, or even Saint Maximilian Kolbe who traded his life for a citizen incarcerated in a death camp.
Those "kangaroo" Christians seem to forget who came up with the Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln{Christian}), or a Congress of mostly Christian Republicans who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitutionmainstays for all Blacks today. The writer remembers Catholic Archbishop Joseph Rummel excommunicating three segregationists (1962) for refusing to integrate church schools in Louisiana.
Starting in 1981, the perfect solution was devised for the oncoming crisis of HIV/AIDS, much of which was transpiring in the Black community. A Nobel laureate couldn't have come up with a better solutiontotal fidelity in marriage, and no sex with anyone but your marriage partner. Many ignore that advice.
Shockingly, many have molded "enhanced interrogation techniques" with "torture". There's a huge difference--as well as a major definition variance--they don't want to talk about.
Torture involves extreme physical pain or even death, such as the cutting off of appendages, gouging of eyes, use of shredders to the body, electrical shockyou name it. Blood is usually involved.
But water boarding, only done on 3 prisoners in the US, is probably the most "enhanced" of the techniques. Because of the conditions of the test, there was no pain, no blood, no deathonly fear. As a result, hundreds maybe thousands, were saved from certain death from terrorists during the "Second Wave"--an assault intended for a high rise on the West Coast, but thwarted by the information gained from water boarding those three terrorists.
Interestingly, all three terrorists are walking around today with their digits intact, tongues attached, and none the worse physically or mentally.
It's likely even Jesus would have OK'd water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would've done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. For that matter, He even died to save all humans.
It's obvious He would not be happy with those who voted for the candidate who kills because it's above his "pay grade" to know if they're alive. Checking the Commandments, killing innocents is against the 5th. Because pro-aborts don't know for sure life does not exist at conception, they are still willing to risk that it's not killing.
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When Jesus was alive, he had the power to the Apostles to interpret His words correctly. It's likely they passed that same power onto their predecessors...
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