Bigmal,
The Immams ought to-be fearing the judgment of God as the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu has spread to Gaza. If it's that close it will also spread through all Palestine.

Narcissist,
I think I can identify with and defend B_D on your charge of Christians hypocrisy.
For a start we both do NOT have physical images to focus worship upon as do some religions with their crosses, rosaries etc. Our focus is upon the spiritual aspects of purity of character and as it is manifest in action that blesses and enhances lives. God is spirit and not physical in any form. We do not worship the body of Jesus, but the purity of his character and actions as he expressed. That it was God revealed in Him and identifies the true character of the God he declared. God who is revealed in man as serving others, forgiving of persecuters and enemies.

Compare other religions views of their God who demands submission to laws and enforces destruction of His infidel enemies.

Quote, "Indeed, I quite enjoy the christian hypocrisy of "You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above" - [Jesus pinned to a stick], "or that is on the earth beneath" [The Cross], or that is in the water under the earth" [The Fish bumper sticker] "you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God" [Deadly Sin from a God??]"

The fish bumper sticker was never an item of worship or a representative of Jesus or God, but a sign to other Christians we are brothers.

Fish in ancient Greek was spelled "ITHUS" and Christians used it as a Greek acronym of Iesous Theos soterion [?], used during the Roman persecution of Christians, one person would draw or form an arc, and if they were in the company of another Christian the other would complete the sign by drawing a concave arc to sign the fish. It was never a graven image that attracted worship.

Philo, you cannot even spell the Greek word for "fish" so why should we accept whatever else you say. Re the cross: try St Paul: "God forbid that I should glory.....except in the crosss.......".

Thanks Francis,
That is what happens when you do things from memory. But I should have known better. Yes the word is "ichthus"

Every time a religious discussion is posted , we see the same mud being thrown, there are three God Clubs in this discussion and they are all throwing mud, they all claim God belongs to their Club, the mud contains half quotes of rehashed second hand religious fiction, God is nowhere to be seen. a christian is to be murdered because he once belonged to another God Club, this shows how distant religion is from God. Christians and Jews have also condemned people to death for belonging to the wrong God Club, they have also stoned, burned and crucified people because they were not members of their God Club, the death of one Christian or the Destruction of the Holy Mosque in Jerusalem, or the slow death by starvation of millions of children, of the deaths of millions of Jews, we cant stop insane people carrying out insane acts because we do not have what it takes to be one of Gods creations, I brought Hitler into this column , because Muslims now are being treated like Jews were treated in the early 1930s, the climate being created by the hate mongers is bringing the rats out of hibernation , Christians and Jews are calling for Muslims to be murdered, nothing has changed ,

Martin Luther left Germans with a deadly combination; he sanctified strict obedience to the State and taught contempt for the Jews .
The Gospel of Paul from Romans 13:1-2. to "express his opinion of the third commandment" Let every person be subjet to the governing authorities for their is no authority exept from God, and those that exist have been instituded by God, therefore he who resits authorities resists what God has appointed. and those who resist will incur judgement, who were the good people in Hitlers Germany those 95% who obeyed or the 5% who apposed it, how can humanity find a balance in the chaos of existance when those who rewrite history accommodate their political masters

Many of the posts here are written by people who have traveled back in time some up to four thousand years, because they keep saying God said this, God said that, to be truthful they never witnessed any God saying anything, "everything God is supposed to have said' benefits the God Club that puts out the so called message from God, how can anyone believe these hypocrits, I know God exists and I know the only way to make him happy is to love my neighbour, I have not joined a God Club because their foundations are soaked in the blood of Humanity, What amazes me is , the God these people claim belong to them ,is responsible for billions of innocent deaths because his servents are only carrying out Gods orders, maybe their God is a antichrist disguised as the creator of the Universe, that would explain all the insane acts being carried out in Gods name, Maybe one of the members of a God club could tell me how many people did Satan murder, people blame Satan for making them kill,or they say they are doing Gods work, this clears their sinbin of any guilt, who is making God Clubs kill, certainly not the creator of the Universe,

"The Immams ought to-be fearing the judgment of God as the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu has spread to Gaza. If it's that close it will also spread through all Palestine."

Thanks for telling us, Philo, that you are attributing bird flu to a vengeful god who has deliberately created a lethal epidemic, which will indiscriminately kill Christians, Muslims, Jews, people of various other religions and of course people of no religion. Or will you wriggle around and tell us that's not what you mean?