Nice LTTE: God did not promise peace.

[HughBeaumont]

http://www.cleveland.com/letters/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/116721202847230.xml&coll=2

(snip):

Based on history and Scripture, peace does not seem to be part of God's plan. Believers should realize that war is inevitable and that incessant supplications for peace are futile, however noble.

Because history and scripture should be one in the same, right?

Yeah, sign ME up for this convoluted "goodness and light". And people wonder why we call them "nutjobs". :eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

1. God's plan also

God's plan also called for executing those who did not observe the Sabbath...

Didn't it also call for men to avoid women while they were menstruating? ("Excuse me, are you menstruating, because if you are, I need to avoid you...")

And, if Bush really followed God's plan, shouldn't he have executed every male in Afghanistan & Iraq and taken all the women & children into slavery?

[Selatius]

4. There seems to be several schools of thought on whether the Bible was written by people or by God.

There hasn't been a conclusive answer reached in that age-old debate that all could agree upon. I generally subscribe to the notion that it was written by the hand of man.

If God wanted us to read something He wrote, He'd miracle a fresh Bible into the hands of every baby that came out of a woman's vagina.

[The Count]

2. So, all the "Peace on earth" I'm hearing is just false advertising then?

I guess it's not worth even trying - now that's a war on Christmas to be fought as well, right?

[mikeytherat]

3. And THIS is what I have been raised with:

Luke 2, verse 8-14:

And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.
And the angel said to them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people;
for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

Guess it's all bullshit.

:eyes:

mikey_the_rat

[HughBeaumont]

5. I've been with that since Linus recited it in "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

The author of this letter fails to realize how much militarism and cowboy politics regressed (and continues to regress) all that are involved. If there was a deity, I can't see how it would approve of what this man's heroes are doing to the world.

And if he accepts that peace isn't part of the master plan, then by all means LIVE by that conviction and sign up for the Oil Slaughter.