I Found This While Wandering, It Says So Much . . .

"So many contradictions, so little time"
                         ---Roshi Bob

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Faithful Contradictions

But when the forbidden months are past,
then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them,
and seize them, beleaguer them,
and lie in wait for them in every stratagem…
                  --Koran 9:5

or


. . . have patience with what they say,
and leave them with noble dignity.
And leave me alone to deal with those
in possession of the good things of life,
who yet deny the truth,
and bear with them . . .
                  --Koran 73:10,11

or


And all the cities of those kings,
and all the kings of them, did Joshua take,
and smote them with the edge of the sword,
and he utterly destroyed them,
as Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded."
                   --Bible; Joshua 11:12

or


A new command I give you:
Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another.
                  --Bible; John 13:34

from: 3 QUARKS DAILY.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In the end, we must forgive, as Christ forgave from the cross, because we cannot allow ourselves, or our world, to be swept away in waves of hatred and sin.  Standing fast for the good, accepting evil rather than returning it, is the only way the tides of injustice can be turned.  We choose life rather than revenge, because choosing life can never be postponed.   We can’t hate first and choose life later.  Those paths diverge at the foot of the cross, in the very face of the God who is life.  Either we choose to love or to hate, to live or to die.  There is only God and that which is not.

- Terrance W. Klein,

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