Tonight’s topic was about
religion and violence. Many people claim
that religion leads to violence and war.
Many wars have been fought in the name of Christianity but although the
instigators may have called themselves Christians they were not necessarily
so. We decided in the discussion time
that war is much more to do with commodities such as oil and the wish to
control it. Some talked of Jesus being a bringer of peace but I pointed out He
said, “10:34 “Do not think that I have come to
bring60 peace to the earth. I have not come to
bring peace but a sword. 10:35
For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her
mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, 10:36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his
household.6Trust me to put a spanner in the works, but
then I like to give a more rounded picture of things in the Bible. These days so many aspects of our faith are
squeezed out, supposedly to make it more palatable, not what I choose to do. I
used the NET Bible in this post.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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