'By their fruits you will know those men', - Jesus Christ.
Reverend Solomon Stoddard, one of New England's most esteemed religious
leaders, in "1703 formally proposed to the Massachusetts Governor that the
colonists be given the financial wherewithal to purchase and train large packs of
dogs 'to hunt Indians as they do bears'." *
Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former
Methodist minister and still elder in the church (I long to be wading in gore) had a
Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite
the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.
*
From an eye-witness account: "There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in
a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a white flag
on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot and killed. All
the squaws in that hole were afterwards killed ..." *
By the 1860s, "in Hawai'i the Reverend Rufus Anderson surveyed the carnage that
by then had reduced those islands' native population by 90 percent or more, and he
declined to see it as tragedy; the expected total die-off of the Hawaiian population
was only natural, this missionary said, somewhat equivalent to 'the amputation of
diseased members of the body'." *
* D.Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University Press 1992
http://www.truthbeknown.com/victims.htm
Originally posted by stokeryes indeed, we have not even touched the Spanish inquisition, Rwanda, Bosnia, the
thats just in america, anglican V roman did burning to each other etc, but when the book of life is opened all souls sins will be known, just pray your good works out do your other works
Nazis, Australia and Tasmania, New Zealand, the crusades etc etc etc, but never the
less we shall come to these others in time.
John Calvin: protestant reformer, murderer of Micheal Servetus a theologian and
physician.
It was through direct evidence supplied by Calvin that Servetus suffered these
injustices and condemned by the French Inquisition to death by a slow fire.
Servetus was refused an advocate at the trial, being told with grim humor that he
could lie well enough without one. The Spaniard was found guilty on heresy on
three primary charges: denying the Trinity, declaring that infant baptism was an
invention of the devil, and attacking the doctrines of the Church of Geneva. During
the trial, Calvin called Servetus a "villainous cur". Calvin had wished the death be
more merciful than burning and that he should be beheaded, but he had worked to
secure the execution, some good men believed that the severity should be blamed
upon him. On October 27, 1553, the torch was lit and in half an hour the spectators
were satisfied. Disbelieving what was happening to him, he was burned at the stake
over green wood so that it took three hours for him to die. Servetus met his death
with steadfastness and prayer, calling upon the Son of the eternal God to grant him
mercy.
The bigot and tyrant, John Calvin, never regretted the part he played in the case
against Servetus and wrote a book defending his position. And though the leading
Protestant divines supported Calvin's view that the execution had been more than
justified, there was enough of an outcry to make further defense desirable, and in
the next year Beza published his book "Whether Heretics should be punished By the
Civil Magistrate?." The responsibility rests heavily enough on Calvin, but it rests still
more upon the intolerant spirit of the age. After 1600 persons were rarely executed
on this charge.
http://latter-rain.com/eccle/servetus.htm
Originally posted by robbie carrobieThere were approximately 200 killed at Sand Creek, some estimates are lower, out of 500 Cheyenne and probably less than 100 Arapaho. Two-thirds of this camp were women and children. Most of the men had ventured south in search of game. There was an American flag and a white flag of truce flying over the camp. Black Kettle had brought his group here under a promise of amnesty. They had established their winter camp at Sand Creek, approx. 40 miles from Fort Lyon, in what is now Kiowa county, Colorado.
Massacre of Sand Creek, Colorado 11/29/1864. Colonel John Chivington, a former
Methodist minister and still elder in the church (I long to be wading in gore) had a Cheyenne village of about 600, mostly women and children, gunned down despite the chiefs' waving with a white flag: 400-500 killed.
*
My great-grandmother (my mother's mother's mother) was full blood Southern Cheyenne.
Originally posted by Suziannecan i ask you if its not too personal, if it is pm me, but how do you reconcile these
There were approximately 200 killed at Sand Creek, some estimates are lower, out of 500 Cheyenne and probably less than 100 Arapaho. Two-thirds of this camp were women and children. Most of the men had ventured south in search of game. There was an American flag and a white flag of truce flying over the camp. Black Kettle had brought his group here unde ...[text shortened]... orado.
My great-grandmother (my mother's mother's mother) was full blood Southern Cheyenne.
atrocities with your Christian faith, for to be sure they were perpetrated by Christians
against innocent people. I may also like to say that it has been a life ambition to meet
a native American, ever since i was a kid i watched grizzly Adams and i would love to
live in a cabin in the hills and have as my best friend a grizzly bear and a native
American. We would go fishing for salmon and whittle little figures made out of wood.
When Jehovahs paradise comes that's what i will be doing. I dont know if we have
congregations of native Americans but i know of a Blackfoot group of Witnesses,
beautiful girls with long dark hair who are active. They have even some publications
in the language. Maybe the G-man would know better.
Originally posted by buckkyyou need to separate the teachings of Christ from the actions of Christians, they are
It's a savage religion. See it my way or Burn forever in the Lake of Fire ! Nothing beautiful about the Christian church or it's teachings. Pure evil mixed with the occasional pleasantry.
not synonymous.
- Joined
- 29 Dec 08
- Moves
- 6788
Originally posted by robbie carrobieBut it looks like you just said to Suzianne, "can i ask you if its not too personal, if it is pm me, but how do you reconcile these atrocities with your Christian faith, for to be sure they were perpetrated by Christians against innocent people."
you need to separate the teachings of Christ from the actions of Christians, they are not synonymous.
So, would you accept "you need to separate the teachings of Christ from the actions of Christians, they are not synonymous" as an answer?
Originally posted by Conrau KReading the accounts of ex JWs and the childhood experiences with no birthdays or Christmas presents and the impact that had on them socially and mentally, one could easily include child abuse.
Probably in another century there will be another cult with the same argument but listing the JWs as examples of human cruelty, citing the death of babies because of parents' refusal to accept blood transfusions.
Originally posted by Conrau Kwhat an ignorant answer, if a physician wishes to give a minor blood, he may do so. but we are of course not talking of merely one or two, shall we ask Conrau how many children Catholic clergy have abused and utterly wrecked the lives of, before we even get to the Nasiz's?
Probably in another century there will be another cult with the same argument but listing the JWs as examples of human cruelty, citing the death of babies because of parents' refusal to accept blood transfusions.
Originally posted by divegeesterChild abuse? we certainly wont be taking lessons from you people on how to bring
Reading the accounts of ex JWs and the childhood experiences with no birthdays or Christmas presents and the impact that had on them socially and mentally, one could easily include child abuse.
up our children. Indeed, my kids teachers are absolutely astounded at how
genuinely polite, helpful and considerate my kid is, in stark contrast they tell me to
other children. People like ex witnesses can hardly be considered an unbiased
source, they are just haters, like the rest. But this thread is not about us, its about
the atrocities of Christians, so either start your own thread or post something
relevant. As for presents, my kid gets lots of presents, he
doesn't need a date to get presents, like you are doing them some type of favour
once a year, get over it. Indeed, he has a play-station, a wii, and xbox360 with
kinect, a mobile phone (hes nine), a bmx, a trampoline, a pc, a skateboard a PSP,
etc etc etc On Monday our congregation went for a hill walk over looking loch
Katrine, then a barbecue beside the Lake of Monteith, there were rope swings and
the kids swam in the loch, and cooked sausages, they all thoroughly loved it. It
was mixed from older ones to young ones, you people dont know the half of it.