Witches of Salem, anyone? American Indians, anyone? Jews–the Inquisition, and numerous pogroms around Europe and Eastern Europe–anyone? Onward, Christian soldiers, anyone? Gott mit uns, anyone?
The claim is so ridiculous that it should die laughing at itself.
I knew that guy was an idiot, I just didn’t realize how much of an idiot.
“God inspired me to hit al Qaeda, and so I hit it. And I had the inspiration to hit Saddam, and so I hit him.”
/snip/
“President Bush said to all of us: 'I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq. . . . And I did.” This sounds much like the original Haaretz version. Bush then allegedly said God had now told him to “go get the Palestinians their state.”
Since I question Bolling’s ability to read the picture might get thru to him.
Good job Matt
Is he giving them last rites? I’m not too familiar with that, can you give them after death? And what’s the point if your are hanging them for what I assume is heresy?
You know, maybe I need to step back and look at this in a different light.
He may be correct, as no true follower of Christ would ever intentionally kill another human.
Same is true for true followers of Islam I suppose.
The nice thing about a blanket statement like that is that a single example disproves the contention. So: Eric Robert Rudolph.
Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain.
Maybe Eric Bolling should ask Bill O’Reilly about Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell has quite a reputation in Ireland and Scotland. He was active at the same time the continent had the Thirty Years war, also divided along religious lines.
What difference does the “name” murderous thugs use to “justify” their killing make? Adam Lanza killed 27 people in the name of nothing and they are just as dead as those killed by ISIS, the Crusaders, rioting Hindus, Buddhist murderers in Myanmar or those killed by Baruch Goldstein in Hebron. It’s the crime that matters not the b.s. “justification”.
And that’s exactly what most of these killers who kill citing religion are-criminals. A great many of them were criminals before they got “religion”-Couachi and Coulibaly in Paris, Tamerlane Tsarnaev in Boston and many more.
The 'Spanish Requirement of 1513 (“El Requerimiento”) was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy of its divinely ordained right to take possession of the territories of the New World and to subjugate, exploit and, when necessary, to fight the native inhabitants. The Requirement was read in Spanish to Native Americans to inform them of Spain’s rights to conquest. Those who subsequently resisted conquest were considered to harbor evil intentions. The Spaniards thus considered those who resisted as defying God’s plan, and so used Catholic theology to justify their conquest.
A similar christian god-given-right was used by British colonists and then by Americans to justify displacement and slaughter of Native Americans.
In other news, “Up is Down” and “Black is White” and “Untruth is Truth.”
It’s from a series on the Thirty Years’ War, which were begun, at least, as a struggle between Catholic and Protestant states.
Paging Dr. George Tiller, Dr. George Tiller to the white courtesy phone. Oh wait, that’s right, he can’t come to the phone any more. He was shot dead by a good Christian.
“The Davidians who murdered their own kids were Muslms, I tell you! They weren’t REAL Christians!!!”
And “BENGHAZI!”
See, also: assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
“yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion – well that number would be zero.”
That might be true if you’re talking about, say, the last five minutes. Then again…
You know who else was a Christian?
His name rhymed with HITLER.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
