I will continue to write about Christianity until Christians actually start to live their self espoused beliefs.

Until that time, I will point out the hypocrisy of stating a belief in Christ and a completely divergent set of actions and lifestyles.

I know people who condemn Muslims, Mexicans and Homosexuals while sitting in a bar drinking and claiming to be Christians.

Please.

Santorum, Bush, Gingrich. They’re all examples of Christians who are closet wannabe Neros. Followers of Constantin not Christ.

If you believe in Christ, you follow his teachings. If you don’t follow his teachings, you’re lying and taking his name in vain. Too many Christians do this. Condeming others to a fabled hell while they live lives that would make the Nazarene cringe.

My opinion of Paul is not good. His writings are repulsive to a large degree.

Believe in Christ. There is nothing wrong with that. If you do, though, live the belief. I’m not saying that one must be perfect. I don’t even believe that Jesus was perfect. I believe that he was human. I beleive he was a gift to mankind. If we study HIS message and not the interpretations of his message as come down to us through Paul and the Constantin Roman Deformation Church, then it is a great and loving message. When we allow intermediaries to tell us what they think Jesus was and what Jesus taught, we are doomed.

I’m of the opinion that the Old Testament should be discarded. It is no better than the Qu’ran. It is a story of blood, rape, pillage, fire and brimstone.

The message of Christ wiped away the need for what we call the old testament.

Sam, I do not believe in original sin. I do not beleive in the concept of sin. I do not believe in the concept of guilt. We learn. We move on. We do good works. We do unto others as we would have others do unto us.

I would not someone to murder me, therefore, I would not murder another. I would not want to be molested as a child, therefore, I would not molest a child. I do not want to have my belongings stolen, therefore, I would not steal from others.

I need no God to know this. I need no threat of hell to compel me to be a good and moral human being.

Hell and the threat of hell is for children. I do not believe that a loving God would have created a hell. I believe that hell is a human invention.

I don’t doubt your honesty one bit; however, you put all humans in an impossible box.

I think you know that I believe in the God who sent Jesus and had him preach to the masses about His Father’s kingdom of Heaven. I still read and believe the Bible stories regularly. If somebody burned Bibles that would be on them.

Paul was a privileged offspring of the Pharisees who persecuted Christians before hearing Christ speak.

Paul became among the greatest of the early Christian preachers, throughout much of the land you have traveled over there.

In his letters to the Ephesians and the Philipians Paul proclaimed himself “Chief among sinners”.

In John 14:1-3 Jesus said: “If you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.”

I believe in a loving God and yet, I don’t understand all of the world’s suffering. I believe that we humans will someday but not while here on earth.

Please come back to America. It certainly isn’t safe here, but you may not make it out alive over there. Some of our people are even rioting over sports shoes now.

You could set Unny up in business and write, write, write. The world needs your honesty without the strong feelings you express on religion. or, if you insist, I cannot keep you from expressing your convictions.

Your good friend,

Sam

Come home and write in the states, Dawood! The world needs your writing about the Middle East and current events.

SamKat

More Qurans were burned in the course of their protests than by Terry Jones. The demonstrations, which started peacefully, quickly turned violent, killing at least nine people and injuring scores in Kandahar City alone. And as protesters vandalized a girls’ school and set fire to shops, Qurans also inadvertently went up in flames. “If they burn a shop, there is a Quran in every shop, so this is a big problem,” says Azizullah Aziz, a perfume and soap salesman in Kandahar City. “People don’t know how to protest.”

“The books were mistakenly thrown out with the trash at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul and were on a burn pile Monday night before Afghan laborers intervened around 11:00 p.m., according to NATO and Afghan officials.

The workers doused the flames with their jackets and mineral water before marching out of Bagram in a fury, carrying with them the charred remains, according to Sabir Safar, secretary of the provincial council of Parwan, the province where Bagram is located.

By the morning, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside of Bagram and on the outskirts of Kabul. Some shot into the air, some threw rocks at the Bagram gate, and others yelled, “Die, die foreigners.” Many of them were the same people who work with foreign troops inside the base. At one point, apparently worried that the base would be stormed, guards at the base fired rubber bullets into the crowd, according to the military. “

Especially when I’m fed up with stupidity.

My home is Thailand. I’ll be heading that way in about 3 weeks. ; )