Arnald Amalric, a French Cestercian Monk answered, when questioned by the commander of the crusades in Southern France how to tell who was a heretic. "Kill them all. God will recognize his own." Pope Innocent III had sent the crusaders to kill the heretic sect of Cathar.. The Cathars were Christian , but they did not accept the authority of the Pope. The commander of the crusade could not tell apart Catholic Frenchmen from a Cathar Frenchman .. The Pope's emmessary ordered the massacre of all the people of Loraine in 1209ad .+ Luke 19:27, "Bring my enemies out before me and slay them." Jesus in Revelation 2:23 said, "I will strike her children dead." If we take the entire Bible in context Jesus agrees with the ordering of slayings by God in the Old Testament. If you add the concept of the Trinity, then you connect Jesus directly with all the slayings of men, women and children by God-Jesus in the Old Testament. Joan of Arch would be born in Loraine and lead France successfully against the Anglo-Saxon invasion. My grandmother was born in Loraine and immigrated to the United State to escape the NAZI invasion. My mother told me the German people love war. I think the Jews and Christians love war too. They believe God commands them to kill the heretics. Well, no matter how you slice it , I'm a heretic. I just can't believe if someone wants me dead they are good. And doesn't God want us dead? That was the punishment for eating that apple. There is some ying and yang going on with the supreme being. Do I offend? Go to a high place and jump. God will not catch you. <*>< |