When you assault the members of the body of Christ you really need to get your facts straight. The wars inspired, directed and conducted by atheist governments in the twentieth century alone amount to over one hundred million dead. This is far more than the TOTAL of all religious wars in the history of mankind combined.
World War I began as the result of tension between European political powers and those of the east; the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire, etc.
The issues were political and economic, NOT religious.
World War II begin in CHINA in 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The conflict there was motivated by the godless Japanese Imperial Empire in opposition to the Communist and Nationalist Chinese, none of which were Christian. In Europe the blood began to flow when the atheist NAZIs began to exercise political and military aggression against their neighbors. One of the parties to the conflict was the Soviet Union; also an atheist government.
The Opium wars in China were caused by British corporations, specifically the British East India Trading company and one other which eludes my memory. It was wholly inspired by corporate profit and greed and had nothing at all to do with religion. The Brits were peddling drugs/opium to the Chinese and the Chinese government attempted to stop it by force. There was nothing high minded or principled about it.
In actual fact, a group of Christians in the city of Shanghai created safe houses and small communities outside the city where those who were attempting to flee the carnage and abuse could find comfort and aid. These selfless people risked their lives and often lost all their possessions in the effort to comfort and support the innoncents who were caught up in war and the godless profiteers. During WWII in the city of Nanking, the godless Japanese Army raped and brutalized over 350,000 men women and children in a period of seven weeks from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938. Christians there created a Safe Zone where noncombantants and retreating soldiers could try to get food and rest.
If you want a short list of the atrocities perpetuated upon humanity by atheists, go to the rolls of the dead in Nanking, Shanghai, Buchenwald, Treblinka, Auschwitz, the Stalinist gulags and the Japanese Mitsubishi labor camps.
You are at liberty to hate Christianity as much as you like, but you are not entitled to use lies and baseless accusations to sell your dogma to others.
It is an historical fact that atheist religious bigots across the board seek to begin an argument with lies, to sustain it with indefensible fallacies and to completely ignore the conclusions of logic which are in opposition to their hate mongering.
In the end, they like their NAZI and communist bretheren, unable to convince by lies resort to restrictions of liberty by force upon those whose gospel they despise.
The atheist agenda has never been truth, freedom or the rights of men. Instead their purpose has been to assume power over the defenseless, to wage unremitting murderous war upon their neighbors and to practice unrestrained atrocities against any and every person they choose.
That is the sad and disgusting history of organized atheist governments and those who deny the divine spark in humanity. That is the truth which none who espouse that heinous philosophy will ever dare to admit or embrace.
Overcome with their own hatred of all that is right and pure, they point their ugly twisted arguments at those who have done no wrong and are guilty of nothing more than a deep desire to love and serve Christ and their fellow man.
Therein lies the true agenda and dogma of atheism in the modern era.
Suppress Christianity in all its forms and deny the truth where ever it raises its head.
If the reader seeks a true and accurate definition of sin, it is atheism.
My facts are straight concerning WWI starting in Christendom, for in 1914, the vast majority of the population in Austria-Hungary professed to be Roman Catholic (90 percent of Austria and 60 percent of Hungary), which declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. At the beginning of the 20th century, religious life in Austria danced to the tempo set primarily by the Roman Catholic Church. With Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, this escalated into the first world war, eventually involving 93 percent of the world's population.
For centuries the official religion in Austria was Roman Catholicism, as dictated by the Hapsburg rulers. Even as late as 1989, 84 percent of the population professed to be Roman Catholic, and there is a concordat between Austria and the Vatican that assures government financial support for the Catholic Church. Another 6 percent are listed as Protestants. Austria-Hungary was bordered by Germany, which was Catholic and Protestant, Croatia, which was mostly Roman Catholic, and Italy, which is home to the Vatican. Thus, WWI started in Christendom.
And this was also true of WWII, which began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and not when Japan invaded China in 1931. Germany was still under the influence of the Catholic Church, with Hitler himself, though from Austria, a Catholic. It was the Catholic Church that propelled Hitler to power in 1933. On July 20, 1933, the Vatican’s interest in the rising power of Nazism was displayed when Cardinal Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII) signed a concordat in Rome between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. Former chancellor Franz Von Papen, a Papal Knight, signed the document as Hitler’s representative, and Pacelli there conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius.
In his book
Satan in Top Hat, Tibor Koeves writes of this, stating: “The Concordat was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the most exalted source.” The concordat required the Vatican to withdraw its support from Germany’s Catholic Center Party, thus sanctioning Hitler’s one-party “total state.” Further, its article 14 stated: “The appointments for archbishops, bishops, and the like will be issued only after the governor, installed by the Reich, has duly ascertained that no doubts exist with respect to general political considerations.” By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a “Holy Year” by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a major factor in Hitler’s push for world domination.
Thus, following Nazi Germany's
blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939, France, along with most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth, subsequently declared war on Germany. China and Japan had their own war, apart from this world war. Hence, both WWI and WWII started in Christendom, so that Catholics slaughtered Catholics and Protestants slaughtered Protestants, with each praying for victory to God. In fact German soldiers wore belt buckles that was inscribed with the words "
Gott mit uns (God is with us)." A man who was in the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, even asked the question: "What disturbed me during those war years . . . was seeing clergymen of practically all denominations—Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, and so forth—blessing the aircraft and their crews before they took off on missions to drop their deadly cargo. I often thought, ‘Whose side is God on?’ "
Hence, these facts stand on their own, with the fault not lying with Christianity but rather with those who
profess to follow Christ's teachings, but "proved false to it's power."(2 Tim 3:5) Jesus clearly stated that "By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit."(Matt 7:16-18)
The churches of Christendom have shown what kind of "fruit" that they have - rotten. History is rife with the atrocities of both Catholicism and Protestantism, along with other religious factions that give the impression of being Christian, that did ' not put up with the healthful teaching (of true Christianity), but, in accord with their own desires, they accumulated teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they turned their ears away from the truth, whereas they....turned aside to false stories. '(2 Tim 4:3, 4)
Jesus also said that "not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the
one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you ! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness."(Matt 7:21-23)
On the other hand, true Christians would be known by their "works", ones that followed closely in Jesus footsteps, whereby they would "be no part of the world" and it's bitter disputes.(John 15:19) These would be known for
clearly adhering to Jesus words to his apostles: "I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”(John 13:34, 35)
Both WWI and WWII showed that the churches have not follow Jesus words but rather followed a pseudo-Christianity or false Christianity. Jesus gave an illustration showing that the Christian congregation that he established and went into operation on Pentecost 33 C.E., would become corrupted, would apostasize or "fall away" at Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. Isaiah 2:2-4 shows that the true religion would then be reestablished in the "last days", our time period.(
King James Bible) These ones of the true religion, contrary to the pattern the churches have set, of being "part and parcel" with the "kings of the earth" and therefore committing "fornication" with them (Rev 17:1, 2), have instead ' beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears, learning war no more'(Isa 2:4), which the churches have not done.
where do you find Christ was given up for our offenses, not our transgressions? :unsure:
