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Take that, Jefferson Bethke.
It is easy to blame religion for acts of violence carried out in religion’s name, easier still to comb through scripture for bits of savagery and assume a simple causality between the text and the deed. But no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.Reza Aslan, Beyond Fundamentalism (via abideinhislove)
Take that, Jefferson Bethke.
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christmyking said:
I have a hard time agreeing with this statement. Christianity is a peaceful religion, it’s just that certain Christians (psuedo-Christians and rarely true Christians) have used the Christian religion for violent means over the centuries.
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classyliving said:
AMEN
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