....Torture and horrible death?\n\n\nThe cross is just that, used to kill many thousands, if not millions over the years.
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I am not sure I want my kids to be intermingled with ANY religious group AT ALL!!!! They are ALL starting to sound a bit scary to me?
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jesus died on the cross with a criminal on either side of him. check the bible! x
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It always brings a tear to my eye to think of Christ on the cross, those evil men and women cursing and mocking Him. And He lifts His head to heaven and with weak breathes He says "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do!" \n\nGod give us all strength to be as loving as YOU!
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Yes, i would wear a noose because it is a symbol of His sacrifice for us. Don't get me wrong , I understand your view. As a matter of fact, for the first 1000+ years, the Catholic church's only symbol for Jesus and Christ was a fish because they considered the cross an instrument of the devil. When crosses became extinct as a form of torture and death, the church reviewed the cross as a symbol and determined it was instead a symbol of God's love for us. Just like a gun becomes a symbol of peace and liberty when it is used on one's army.
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"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.'" (1 Cor 1 18-19). For two thousand years people have jeered at the cross, but it is our only means of salvation and should be honoured on Christian buildings.  Yours is a good question and the day may come when the crazy authorities running our country might order the removal of crosses from churches.  Let us hope that Christians will have the courage to refuse.
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This is a might more serious than it looks.  \n\nDid you know that the last estimate of the death toll across Europe reached 1.3 millions souls tortured and roasted to death in the name of G-d.  Whole villages in places like Scotland were left womanless, children lost their mothers, parents their daughters.  Women and girls constituted 95% of the deaths. \n\nFor those who care to remember this is an emmotive issue.  The inquisition, sometimes known as the female holocaust, was a time when patriarchal church leaders quaked with terror at the sheer power of women, believing them to be instruments of the devil, a source of evil, bringers of impurity to men.    \n\nAs both a Jew and a woman I feel it equally important to remember them both. Lest we forget  xxxx\n\np.s.  no Im not black as well.
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Yes it is cruel.  "Hell" is nothing more than a "scare tactic" used by religious groups for thousands of years to keep people under control.  The christians believe that even if you spend your whole life helping people and avoid all sins; you will still BURN in HELL if you don't "accept" jesus christ as your lord and saviour.
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...is it really such a "horrible death".... considering the alternative... \n\nMany a "sperm" has died by the "hand of man"... (pun intended)..\n\nat least, these little "soon to be dead" guys... "were aimed towards heaven"...
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Good question -- the same can be said about this business of torturing people FOREVER in hell just because they could not believe the gospel.  (It is rather hard to believe in invisible things, or in things that one is told and for which there is no proof.)  But if God loves to hate the people he supposedly loves, then that's the way it goes.
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It's the kind of nonsense that makes for war and keeps people separate from each other. Not what i think Jesus was really going for in his lifetime here. I don't think this sort of thing helps anyone but the church.
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God raped Mary?\nThat is an interesting way to interpret the historical event.\n\nRape is a serious charge and will fire up Christians everywhere!\n\nI am a Christian and find your statement painful. I never considered that God did anything wrong, but your opinion will make me think.
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Hmmm, well; I don't know the details but still I can not fathom why someone would be denied that if they were ready and willing to die for the benefit of their Country. Yes it is appalling, and I'm not Christian so perhaps I'm more open to this than a Christian would be; yet I've found many Christians to be quite reasonable so I find this somewhat baffling. I think I shall look into this a little more.
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I really like your questions you get right to the point yeah the only time Christians were persecuted was back in the Roman Empire. Ceasar was the first emperor to kill Christians and then Nero who killed Peter and Paul and set Christians on fire as torches to make light for his chariot races on Vatican Hill. That's basically the only time. In some countries now you have some killings but not major ones. The Jewish people went through a hell of a lot more. Especially with Hitler. I don't know why people whine so much. Everyone believes in something different deal with it you know. Just because you don't think it's right doesn't make it wrong. To them your religion may seem weird. I have studied all the major religions and find them quit interesting. I can see the point that they are coming across with. I think the people who want to be ignorant should go do some research before they open their mouths. GOOD POINT!!!!!you made.\n\n\n\nand Genesis...i think you are the one who has to do some research. I don't know where you got your ideas from but they are not right. Other religions do not kill you for caring around the bible, a few countries do but thats not persecution. Muslims kill other Muslims for converting Christianity. Muslims don't like Christianity for the fact they think the trinity refers to three different people.. they are monotheistic. They don't kill us for caring the bible. As a matter of fact your not even allowed in Mecca, their holy city without being Muslim. DO SOME RESEARCH GESH!!!!!! And Jewish people do not believe in Jesus, they just think he was a jewish guy. And they weren't killed because they believed in the true god. Hitler just didn't like them.\n\n\nFirst of all just because a couple of thousand Christians are killed in other countries doesn't make it persecution we kill thousands of people of different religions with hate groups that are supposedly Christians and they don't call it persecution they call it justification. Now 6 million Jews being killed I classify as persecution. Grow up people\n\nSanta Claus was based on a real person St. Nicholas he had lots of money and used to go around at night and throw money into the houses of poor people. They have just added a few things to it now but it's not a myth it actually happened.
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The sacrifice of Jesus Christ, once and for all, is the same sacrifice at every Mass all over the world through time.  \n\nJesus is not bound by time or space.  I mean get real, He is God.\n\nInteresting concept...I like it.\n\nGod Bless.
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You know, I'm not a Christian, but I really liked this story.  \n\nIt really has nothing to do with the cross as a religious symbol, but as a symbol of burden.  Very nice.
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the "Passion" was a kids version of what truly happened. it was so brutal that it could not be shown on TV or movies. it was so painful before they were put on the cross, it was a miracle that He did not die before the cross. first, he was spat upon and his beard was torn out by his own people. then he was whipped with a stick. he was taken before pilate. then he was sripped naked and whipped by the "cat and nine tails" which had peices of metal and glass that tears the skinn off. they whipped him thirty-nine times. then he was robed in purple and a crown of thorns was forced onto his head. the thorns were the length of common nails and as thin as a pine needle. they were so sharp that they went through his scull. then he was forced to carry his cross which would have weighd something near five hundred pounds. he had to carry it throu the streets ant to the mount called golgotha which was a good ten kilometers from the roman post in the city. once there, he had his clothes ripped off him once more and was forced to hold out his arms where nails the length of railroad spikes were driven into his hands and feet. then they raised the cross into the hole whre it dropped two to three feet. he was nude, bleeding, almost unrecognizable, and was mocked by both his people and the romans. what you did not see in the movie was that all the sin of the world was brought onto Jesus and he died from the weight of that sin.
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might have something to do with fear of eternal torture, burning and suffering.