Posted by parhad (64.160.45.136) on December 18, 2001 at 07:23:31:
I like the way Christians have appropriated any and all virtues in this world, virtues that existed long before Jesus was born, and made of them Christian virtues...something unique and exclusive to them and them alone. To hear them tell it washing your hands after going to the bathroom is a Christian virtue, as is helping an old man home with the groceries, saying "Thank you" is also a Christian virtue as is holding a door open or covering your mouth when you sneeze.
Truth is the Assyrians and any number of ancient people, people who invented Christianity in the first place but weren't overly impressed by it, had any number of virtues these Christians would like to claim for their own. They have made what used to be simple common decency, something Christians can't claim to be known for, a Christian "thing"...when any number of the writings of Buddha and Ahiqar and Confucious and Hunter Thompson came before or after and did the job much better.
The actual and true Christian virtues, those unique to this particular religion don't seem to me much to brag about. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ gives just about the best directions to get you politely but firmly expelled from your country...after which he goes on to advise you on how best to abandon your mother, father, brothers and sisters, finally turning your back on your nation and offering yourself up as a sacrifice. Turning the cheek is supposed to be the crowning Christian glory and we can see plain enough where it got him...and where it has gotten us...and where those "fake" Christians, who never turned anything but a a kinfe point into the entrails of a child, got to.
The New Testicles are presented as a sharp contrast to the old ones...we grudgingly admit that there is a tad too much violence and imprecations and damning of innocent children in the Old Testicles, then crow and coo over the mild and loving God portrayed in the New Testicles.
Give me a break...like God wouldn't give Jesus. What is the New Testicle but a description of the most dysfunctional and brutal relationship between an old man who should have known better and his mild and tender son whom he insists must be broken and nailed to a cross. This is Love, this Mercy and Tenderness?? For this kind of treatment of a man or child you'd be put away for life if not executed...you sure as hell wouldn't be honored or loved.
The religion starts out with the most uncalled for inhumanity, and towards a loving son anyone would be proud to own up to. But not this new God of "Love"...all he sees is a sacrificial goat...much like his old self in the older Testicle. Only there it was someone else's son, or goat or pig. Now he wants his own son murdered, after a good flogging of course.
No wonder Christians kill so relentlessly, they think it is an act of Love. And no wonder Christian Assyrians humiliate our ancestry and Heritage so...while they claim it is the dearest thing to them...isn't that the example that old madman of the two Testicles set for us...that you take the nearest and dearest thing to you and rip it apart and get others to betray it and villify it and kill it...all the while raising weepy eyes to heaven, the Insane Asylum where this brute resides.
Merry Christmas.