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   From:  Trent_Fuller (TrentFuller)    11/13/2002 4:24 pm  
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There is no more destructive philosophy then punitive exclusivity.  This is the backbone of organized religion and the bane of humanity.   

Everywhere there is suffering in the world there is punitive exclusivity.  Every war between nations, and nearly every war of words on any religious forum in delphiforums, has this main element.  Is this what Jesus came to establish?  Did He come to establish a group of people to overtake another, or threaten them with mortal and spiritual destruction?  Did He come to condemn the world or save the world?  Did He teach His followers to suspiciously despise or mistreat their neighbors in Samaria?  Who are your neighbors? 

Look at the strife in Bosnia, Ireland, Sudan, Ethiopia, India, and everywhere there is death and suffering.  Each one of them is a prime example of punitive exclusivity, whether it is Christian against Christian or Hindu verses Muslim, or Muslim verses Christian, or what have you.  If you are not in the group, you are fair game.   

At the heart there is a mindset that non-conformity means license to harm.  It is sick, and twisted.  It is the motto of the Talaban, and the theme song of the radical fundamentalist fringe.  This will destroy the world, if allowed to run its course.  Do we need another 9/11?  Do we need another crusade?  Is there a more excellent way? 

The travesty is that Christians use it, and when they do it is encouraged and praised.  Militant gracers attack militant legalists, and if you dont believe exactly as they do then you are a belief piata: the striking object for the candy of their peers esteem.  They swing away, blindly.  If you dance stay in their way, the blows will eventually land, and cut you through.  I have been on the receiving end, and regretfully on the sending end as well.  Lets repent from punitive exclusivity!  

Jesus taught the more excellent way.  We can have oneness apart from sameness; unity without uniformity.  We can reach out to our neighbor in love.  And when we have done this to the least of them, we have done it unto Him.  How can we say that when we hurt our neighbors that we are not also doing it to Him as well? 

Side note:  If you want to know who is unrepentantly Gods hand of judgment on the infidels, just look at who respond to this post with disrespect and wrath.

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