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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Just when I was starting to like Christianity...
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Shakon
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LyricalX said:
Old testiment Vs. New Testiment classic.
Like other people have said, that's a part of something in the old testiment, which was written by who knows who (it's easy to find out, but there's quite a few, and I dun wanna write 'em all out.). The old testiment is now what I, as well as Paul, calls "useless" (aside from learning about things, and other purposes...). Christians don't follow those laws. When Jesus died, we were set free from the law (says in Romans somewhere....). Christians follow the new testiment.
Speaking of which, there's a verse (I can't remember which, but you can try to look it up) that says "Don't enslave aliens" ("Aliens" refer to those different than us...) and it also says that, if we have slaves, to treat them as one of your family, with kindness and generosity.
That being said, the people who enslaved people from Africa were not justified. They were just being hypocritical, as they were in the Victorian era, and various other Eras. The past of Christianity in the middle ages to about 18 or 19... something-or-other, is very screwed up. I hate that those people labled how Christians act now. They were hypocritical and crude. Christianity is not like the way it was in the past, just to make that clear.
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