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Notre Dame Professor Tackles ‘Myth’ of Christian Martyrdom
Yahoo News ^ | 5/3/13 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 05/03/2013 10:50:36 AM PDT by marshmallow

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To: butterdezillion

And there’s something else too. If any Christian wanted to speak out against the Holocaust after already having been complicit through silence, the Holocaust supporters could always call them hypocrites for eventually speaking out. If everybody is forced to take a bite out of that sacrifice to Molech, they are already stained.

It’s a way of demoralizing a people.

I cannot earn a wage without helping to pay for the crap that Kermit Gosnell has been doing. My government ensures that the only way I can be totally innocent of those babies’ blood is if I never earn a wage.

Again, the methods of demoralizing (removing the moral fiber of) a people are all about incrementally increasing the involvement that people were OK “compromising” with.

This gals’ whole premise is flawed. Seriously flawed. And dangerous. She is a boiled frog and is upset that we don’t want to join her. That area of “compromise” is precisely the process that the Muslims who easily kill “infidels” all over the world right now have said they will get America to the same point of sharia.

Specifically, they intend to use our intention to be accepting and loving toward other cultures as a way to FORCE sharia on the whole country. The initial push starts when there is perceived weakness and/or when the Muslim population reaches about 8%. At 10$ the push toward sharia is REQUIRED of all Muslims. But at about 8% they start claiming that their religion REQUIRES things like not touching or eating pork, not riding in a car with a dog, etc. And they use the Christian society’s “niceness” as a way of forcing companies to make special provisions for Muslims. That establishes a legal precedent which is then used to get elements of sharia embedded within a supposedly “religiously-neutral” government. Once the laws provide exceptions for Muslims you set up 2 different tracks - one for Muslims, and one for infidels.

I’m not sure what this gal is claiming as the way that historic truth is “verified”, but I do know that what she is saying about compromise is downright dangerous, because it is the precise method the Islamists have said we will get from America to Iran.

And it is precisely the way that Israel in the Old Testament was handed over to be destroyed by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, etc. The Lord gave them over to defeat because they were constantly joining in with the Baal, Molech, and Asherah worshipping of the people around them, as they intermarried with them and forgot all about the Word of God that made them a separate - and blessed - people.

So this gal misunderstands Biblical history, secular history, and current events.


43 posted on 05/03/2013 11:43:03 AM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: JCBreckenridge
And as Moss admits only in an endnote, Luke also has some verses regarding angels and bloody sweat that contradict her thesis, but she simply rejects these as manuscript variations, interpolated later.

That's telling right there.

44 posted on 05/03/2013 11:45:32 AM PDT by dragonblustar (2 Peter 3:18)
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To: Houghton M.

Fact, Candida is a liberal pro-abort prof who supports Obama and Obamacare, and is using this book to advance her pro abort and yes, feminist agenda.

Call me an ignoramus if you will, but I’m right here.

What better way than to eliminate all the men who died for Christ? I wonder if Stephen even made the cut. It is curious the article never bothers to list which six. Do you not wonder why that is?


48 posted on 05/03/2013 11:48:45 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: Houghton M.

Excuse me, but what right do you have to tell Catholics what they can believe or not believe? I wasn’t aware the Pope Francis I was a member of FR.


49 posted on 05/03/2013 11:49:05 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Houghton M.

Yes, it is. Chick prof, chick martyrs.


50 posted on 05/03/2013 11:49:47 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: dragonblustar

I know! Like I said, read the First Things article on Gibbon. SSDD.


51 posted on 05/03/2013 11:51:32 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: JCBreckenridge

She conveniently stops at 300 AD just before Diocletian’s edict in 303 that purged the army of Christians (I thought she said they wouldn’t join) and went on a binge killing 3,000-3,500 more Christians.


58 posted on 05/03/2013 11:58:55 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: marshmallow
Chickens coming home to roost for labeling the Bible "mythology."

Somewhere 'Adam HaRi'shon veChavvah 'Ishto (that's Adam and Eve for you folks in Yorba Linda) are laughing.

59 posted on 05/03/2013 11:59:47 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: massgopguy

I still want to see the other 5 of her list of 6 that made her cut.


60 posted on 05/03/2013 12:01:07 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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