Hate in the Words of God
Whoever thought that God could hate, that the true giver of life and faith would be the same to encourage hate. Apparently some of America's finest, the Ku Klux Klan, seem to think that god has given them the right to hate. This blatant misuse of the Bible's words are evident in the writing of Jamey Keith. He claims that Satan and all his seed is the root of evil and that there is a God given right to hate.
This whole concept left me wondering what is really being thought in churches, in schools and by parents all across the nation. Keith quotes several pieces from the Bible itself, but his piece still doesn't prove why he can hate. The KKK hates Africans, Jews, Hispanics and a plethora of races and cultures, but they are not the seed of Satan. Is this what religion is teaching people now, how to hate? I guess that everybody gets something different out of religion, the faith in themselves to make it through the day or something to keep them morally clean, but when did hate ever fit into that equation?
The KKK claims that God is their hugest ally in the battle to “purify” the U.S. Although I’ll admit that there are many contradictions in the bible (despite my atheism I’ve read it 6 times) there is no part that says to hate people based on color and culture. The Bible even states that you must even love your enemies yet Keith states that your enemy may not be Satan, but maybe your fellow man.
It scares me how religion spawns many forms of evil. We are now in a so-called “religious war,” but what religion are we fighting for? It scares me how many wars have broken out over religion. Look at how many died during the Crusades and all the more recent religion oriented fights. Then I see people in religious cults or those who follow these evangelists around and it scares me. Religion has become a sad way to justify hate and bin Laden is a perfect example of this. What if the people of Islam had more faith in themselves instead of Allah, would they feel different towards us? I know that in a country like Afghanistan people have little to look up to and be happy about so Islam is the pure replacement for what they don’t have. I guess the whole point of this rant is that I’m shocked at how religion and faith can be the justification for hate, when there is no true justification for the feeling. Bin Laden, Jamey Keith, David Duke, David Horowitz, all you can take your faith, your beliefs and yourselves and jump off a cliff.
Whoever thought that God could hate, that the true giver of life and faith would be the same to encourage hate. Apparently some of America's finest, the Ku Klux Klan, seem to think that god has given them the right to hate. This blatant misuse of the Bible's words are evident in the writing of Jamey Keith. He claims that Satan and all his seed is the root of evil and that there is a God given right to hate.
This whole concept left me wondering what is really being thought in churches, in schools and by parents all across the nation. Keith quotes several pieces from the Bible itself, but his piece still doesn't prove why he can hate. The KKK hates Africans, Jews, Hispanics and a plethora of races and cultures, but they are not the seed of Satan. Is this what religion is teaching people now, how to hate? I guess that everybody gets something different out of religion, the faith in themselves to make it through the day or something to keep them morally clean, but when did hate ever fit into that equation?
The KKK claims that God is their hugest ally in the battle to “purify” the U.S. Although I’ll admit that there are many contradictions in the bible (despite my atheism I’ve read it 6 times) there is no part that says to hate people based on color and culture. The Bible even states that you must even love your enemies yet Keith states that your enemy may not be Satan, but maybe your fellow man.
It scares me how religion spawns many forms of evil. We are now in a so-called “religious war,” but what religion are we fighting for? It scares me how many wars have broken out over religion. Look at how many died during the Crusades and all the more recent religion oriented fights. Then I see people in religious cults or those who follow these evangelists around and it scares me. Religion has become a sad way to justify hate and bin Laden is a perfect example of this. What if the people of Islam had more faith in themselves instead of Allah, would they feel different towards us? I know that in a country like Afghanistan people have little to look up to and be happy about so Islam is the pure replacement for what they don’t have. I guess the whole point of this rant is that I’m shocked at how religion and faith can be the justification for hate, when there is no true justification for the feeling. Bin Laden, Jamey Keith, David Duke, David Horowitz, all you can take your faith, your beliefs and yourselves and jump off a cliff.
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