Re: Shocking Poll Shows Most Americans Want Armageddon

In talk.politics.guns Thanatos <atropos@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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Jyeshta wrote:


Yes, but not to _kill_ them. The only religion that mandates
killng the unconverted is Islam.


Bull***. The bible says to burn those that don't believe in 'him.'

John 15:6
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered;
and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are
burned."

We only burn dead branches...

Says who? I've seen plenty of live branches burned in my lifetime in
bonfires and whatnot.

Not while they are still attached to a living tree, otherwise you
couldn't
have 'gather[ed] them'

When you cut a branch off a living tree, it's still alive for quite a
while. In fact, with many species, if you plant the cutting, it will
grow into a whole new tree.

True, but such a brach hasn't been 'cast off', and a 'cast off' branch is
typically dead.

Hell, southern California is full of entire live
trees that just went up in flames.

And did 'men gather them, and cast them into the fire'?

Apparently. Haven't you been following the claims of arson

Really? So some people went out and gathered up several hundred square miles
of trees and put them all into a big pile to burn?

? And the
firefighters themselves were setting backfires to control the blaze.

Which doesn't involve gathering.

Well, I think I've made my point: that if one has to engage in such
mind-numbing pedantism in order to justify one's religion, then it's
nothing but bull*** from the get-go.

Branches were cut off and dried on the wall of the vineyard for later
use as fuel. That's what it's referring to.

I gotta tell you, it's fun watching you biblical scholars discuss
this, it really is. LOL

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