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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.

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