2439 Excuse my outrage, but I think it's justified.
He had the power to prevent the war with a word. Who else has that kind of power?
July 28, 2013 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Looking at Christianity, one of the things that is the most frustrating is the self-reinforcing cherry-picking that occurs during times of moral crisis. | |
| It seems to me, from what I've seen, that all Christians do is they use religion to reinforce whatever emotional impulse that they're having. | |
| When the planes fly into the World Trade Center, the Christians, who are the vast majority, In America, the Christians seem to forget a couple of edicts that Jesus put forward, like turn the other goddamn cheek and love your enemies. | |
| That was nowhere to be seen. | |
| I didn't see any of the Christians and almost all of the people in the media and the people in politics. | |
| They're all Christians and not like Sunday once an hour Christians, but real God-fearing, Christ-loving Christians. | |
| I did not see any of them say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. | |
| Christ commanded us to love our enemies. | |
| Christ commanded us to turn the other cheek. | |
| If you ask for your cloak, give him your shirt too. | |
| If you ask you to walk a mile with him, walk two miles with him. | |
| Let us take the example, what would Jesus do? | |
| Jesus would try to love his enemies and try to understand where they were coming from. | |
| I saw none of that in the lead up to two of the most brutal invasions the world has ever seen. | |
| And that is really kind of frustrating when you see that utter disregard of one of the most central tenets of Christianity. | |
| Christianity is focused on Christ. | |
| And if you want to find an eye-for-an-eye commandments in religions, they're not hard to find. | |
| But the whole point of Christianity is to allow the adaptations that Christ put upon the Old Testament religious commandments to be primal, to have primacy. | |
| You're not supposed to skip over Jesus and go to the goddamn Old Testament if you're a Christian! | |
| So, it is incredibly frustrating when you see Christians continually satisfying their bloodlust with no reference to the central tenets of their religion because it makes you ask, what the hell is the point? | |
| of the religious edicts if they just reinforce whatever you feel like doing anyway. | |
| Impulses on steroids. | |
| That is the essence of almost all the religion that I've ever seen in the world. | |
| And it would be really nice for the Christians who praise somebody who went against the dominant ideology and theology of his time. | |
| Who attempted to reverse some of the more brutal commandments of the eye for an eye Old Testament psycho deity for one of them to actually emulate what Jesus was supposed to be doing and stand before the Chinese tanks of righteous vengeance and say, no, Jesus taught us to love our enemies. | |
| What would Jesus do? | |
| Would Jesus go and bomb the shit out of the Iraqi civilian population and the Afghanistan civilian population who in no way were responsible for what happened? | |
| No! | |
| That is not what Jesus would do. | |
| I stand before you and say, stop! | |
| Let us remember the commandments of the man we worship. | |
| Nobody has said, you know what, in our lust for blood we committed the unforgivable sin of baying like a bunch of rabid jackals, baying for the blood of our enemies. | |
| We forgot the teachings of Jesus and now look what's happened. | |
| We've killed over a million Iraqis. | |
| I don't think anybody even knows how many Afghanis have been turned into vaporized rubble. | |
| We forgot the teachings of Jesus, we committed a sin, and now we must make amends. | |
| I don't think there's been any goddamn backtracking at all from the Christians with regards to not following the teachings of Jesus and joining into the low-rent, baying, paleolithic blood pack of vengeance-seekers. | |
| There's no circling back. | |
| The priests drove the war more than the politicians did. | |
| I mean, everybody focuses on the politicians. | |
| Ooh, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, ooh, Rice, bad, bad, bad. | |
| No, I mean, the priests drove the war. | |
| America is by far the most religious of the Western countries. | |
| I mean, there's not even a close second. | |
| And if the priests had told people, Jesus loves his enemies, don't you dare pay for the blood of those who have attacked you. | |
| Don't you dare go for bloodlust. | |
| You cannot go and slaughter the innocent children of your enemy and call it virtue. | |
| That is directly against the teachings of Jesus. | |
| If the Pope had said, everybody who supports the war is excommunicated, anybody who lifts up a gun to shoot, even if we had the enemies in our sights, anybody who pulls the trigger is directly disobeying the central commandment of Jesus to love your enemies. | |
| There would have been no war! | |
| And the fact that the priests are back there driving and whipping the sheep all over the cliff in the fiery furnace of sin and bloodlust is something that atheists should be pointing out repeatedly. | |
| They drove the war. | |
| They herded the sheep into the war. | |
| They blessed and approved those who shoot the innocents and bomb the children. | |
| And not only do they do nothing relative to their own ideals and edicts to stop the war in its tracks, they're the ones who drove and made it happen to begin with. | |
| What did the pope do? | |
| Well, the pope did what the pope always does. | |
| Gets behind and licks the boots of those with the biggest goddamn guns. | |
| I mean, the pope says, I excommunicate, I condemn as a sin, ex. | |
| That is some serious shit. | |
| Hundreds of millions of Catholics around the world will take that shit very seriously. | |
| He had the power with a word to prevent a war. | |
| Who else has that power? | |
| And what does he do? | |
| Goes home and forgives his pedophile priests and licks all the fucking gold in the basement of the Vatican. |
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