Theocentric Musings

The easiest way to receive support and assistance for bad treatment of an opponent is to dehumanize that opponent.  Make them appear as subhuman, or of such an evil that your supporters no longer judge them as worthy of the rights of other human beings.  This type of manipulation has been successful in various types of conflicts, from occupation, to wars, to slavery, etc. for ages.  Many are a victim of this manipulation in our country right now and don't even realize it.

It never ceases to amaze me at how many "Christians" have an angry, evil, fear mongering, hate-filled god. On second glance their god sounds an awfully lot like satan. Makes me wonder.

This is written by my friend Richard Murray, you can find him at his blog, http://www.thegoodnessofgod.com/ , it's a definite must read. Take the time to learn something: DOES GOD ALLOW EVIL? by Richard Murray Before you say, "Yes, obviously He does," I want you to take a step back and consider a couple of other possibilities. For the sake of argument, let's assume that a good God would never create or allow evil of any kind. In other words, a good God would always DISALLOW evil and never ALLOW it. With me so far? Now, assuming that such a good God would DISALLOW all evil, the question becomes HOW would He disallow it? Would such a God have any limitations on HOW He would disallow all evil motives, evil actions and evil events? Would such a good God coerce the wills of free beings to incinerate every evil thought before it arose? Would this God forcibly intervene in each and every circumstance nipping every evil event in the bud before it occurred? Would ...

It wouldn't surprise me to see Franklin Graham support Hitler's treatment of homosexuals, based on his support of the laws in Russia and the fruit of those laws. What happened as a fruit of Hitler's anti homosexual regime? Gay men suffere d unusually cruel treatment in the concentration camps. They faced persecution not only from German soldiers but also from other prisoners, and many gay men were beaten to death. Gays in forced labor camps routinely received more grueling and dangerous work assignments than other non-Jewish inmates, under the policy of "Extermination Through Work". SS soldiers also were known to use gay men for target practice, aiming their weapons at the pink triangles their human targets were forced to wear. The harsh treatment can be attributed to the view of the SS guards toward gay men, as well as to the homophobic attitudes present in German society at large. The marginalization of gay men in Germany was reflected in the camps. M...

Jesus looked upon the multitude and was moved with compassion. This was typical of Jesus, He saw people and couldn't help but have compassion for them. What man y people miss is that in the multitude were men, women, and children, they were gay, thieves, liars, gossipers, back stabbers, and murderers. Drunks, addicts, bullies, and manipulators. Rapists, child rapists, adulterers, divorced, and a sprinkling of religious zealots. He didn't have compassion for them or a love towards them only when they stopped doing things that those in American Christianity™ prop up as the worst sins, He loved them and had compassion for them while they were embroiled in any and all of these things, simply because they were His children. You see, Jesus didn't love the sinner and hate the sin, He loved people and hated evil. He was wise enough to see that the sins, the missing the mark, of those standing before Him that they were involved with didn't define them, and it w...