I agree that many terrible and horrible things were done by christians to their fellow man. Many terrible and horrible things were also done by the muslims, the romans, the indians, the asians, the caucasians, the assyrians, the iranians.......... to their fellow man. This part of history is not just confined to the christians, nor is it just confined to 'in the name of God'.
When an american is taken hostage by a foreign country...... well, a bunch of americans........ the US tries to first get them back by diplomatic talks and appeasements and all that stuff. When it fails, we go in kick ass and take names, and bring them home. Thats how it would be in a perfect world anyway ..:P (The Iranian hostage crisies was a failure, I know) The pharaoh of Egypt was holding Gods chosen people as slaves and many times Moses went to the pharaoh and asked him to "let my people go". When diplomatic terms failed, God went in a took them by force. They were very important to His salvation plan, and it was time to show a foreshadow of the Messiah to come. (which is what Moses and the Exodus is... a foreshadow of the Christ and his rescue plan of salvation)
I think a big part of western christianity's problem is that we have of view of God or Christ that is meek and mild, and well, rather wimpy. But my God, the one who I belong to ..The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name. (Ex. 15:3) He is strong and powerful and mighty to save, He is so much bigger than I am or this world is. I dont understand Him all the time and truthfully dont want to. (if I had a God that my puny mind could understand, then what kind of a god would that be) I want to have to continually study His awesomeness and His holiness, because if it came to a point that i didnt have to...well, there would be an end to the awesoness and wonder and might. And I am so glad that He loves me enough to give me choices, to love me when I dont follow them, to love me when I rebel against Him, to correct me when I am wrong, to let me be so angry that I could spit nails at Him and then comfort me when my tantrum is over. He can do that because He is so big and mighty and not always understandable at times.... but He is love.
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Of course many things have been done by just about every culture and nation (I'd probably say "all" but since I don't know the histories of all of 'em I'm being safe) but I mentioned the horrors committed by our recent ancestors in the Americas to question when and where do you think this was a Christian nation? It never was by law as far as I'm aware so you must mean it in a societal sense. Please clarify for me by what you mean.
By my definition of love, the Jewish and Christian god is anything but. In my fallible opinion, you *believe* as I used to *believe* that he did such things but I'm unsure how you *know* such things. I'm going to try to prepare a post on epistemology and assumptions and perhaps we can go from there.
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