Christian Nation Eritrea , Christian Government and according to Wiki and Pew research  is 62% Christian population with the rest some downtrodden Muslims.
There government party name is pretty sad for what they are.
People's Front for Democracy and Justice
its just a dictatorship which is a shame.
The problem is , If u like the Official Government approved version of Christianity your fine . any thing else its off to jail..
http://www.ehrea.org/prisonersreligion.php
Its just a shame to see another extremist Country that's using its religion to oppress its people..

See the biggest problem is the Bible it encourages Christians to kill, those that do wrong and that are not believers, If they truly believe what the bible says its all there.
Yes yes some old testament but isn't Jesus god ?
and isn't god perfect and unchangeable, so old testament god has to be new testimment god or he changed , didn't he ?
Killing Non Believers


Luke 19:27 ESV / 75 helpful votes
But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”
Deuteronomy 17:1-20 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. “If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. ...
2 Chronicles 15:12-13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, but that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
Matthew 10:34 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
2 Chronicles 15:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
Leviticus 20:27 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”
John 3:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Exodus 22:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant,
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Psalm 49:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
1 Samuel 15:2-3 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Deuteronomy 17:2-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

That's only a few, more here
https://www.openbible.info/topics/killing_non_believers

So as long as a Person calls themselves a Christian they have to follow that scripture,
its easy to see why no one wants to really follow the bible,

Isnt it fun to pick out a few examples of a Religious Handbook to say they r all extremists because the book says ?

Just what the world needs, more Middle Eastern, Abrahamic God-Freaks. And what's the bet someone is going to claim that they have the wrong interpretation of the Bible. Wouldn't have anything to do with their basic inability to form an individual opinion of the nature of reality. Move on, evolution.

DonDeeHippy wrote on May 23^rd, 2018 at 10:10am:





QUESTION;
What was the fullfilling of the law of God,     i.e. Moses law,  Old Testament law ?


Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.



FURTHER.....

Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.


As per......

Matthew 19:16
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.


All Torah law....



All of the above were quoted by Jesus, from the book(s) of the law, the Torah ['the laws of Moses'],
Exodus 20:12-16
Deuteronomy 5:16-20

And including,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
From, Leviticus 19:18


.




FURTHER.....

Even in the Old Testament bible,       the commandment [of God] to the ancient Hebrews, was to act justly, to Hebrews and towards strangers.


Here are verses from the Torah for you......

Yadda said.....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1493888183/39#39
Quote:




So stop with the rubbish, and the lies,    DonDee.

Yadda wrote on May 23^rd, 2018 at 5:28pm:


Yadda is an empty vessel beaten and manipulated by others to amplify and propagate their hate.

Yadda wrote on May 23^rd, 2018 at 5:19pm:


So none of those verses I put up r in the Bible. 
Are mediums and necromancers non believers that need to be stoned ?

Hey, Yadda, how about these Bible instructions?

Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 17
Numbers 31

Mmmm?   

How is the government using the Christian religion to oppress people?

What commandment is it using exactly?
Thou shalt not kill perhaps?  that's pretty oppressive.

The Golden Rule maybe...  do unto others as you would have them do unto you?

No?

Brian Ross wrote on May 24^th, 2018 at 9:59pm:

How about them? "Mmmmm?" What are you? an aunt?



How many have been killed on the streets of Western cities because of those verses, Bwian?

Grendel wrote on May 25^th, 2018 at 5:38pm:

they r not following the state appointed religions(orthodox and Catholicism )  so they r being jailed. 
There r plenty of oppressive texts in the bible I'm sure they will be able to use one to justify that 

Mattyfisk wrote on May 25^th, 2018 at 11:24pm:

Ask Bwian Mmmmm, arsebandit,. He thought he was making a point.

I am asking him how many people have been killed because of those verses.

Brian Ross wrote on May 26^th, 2018 at 3:17pm:


Do you believe the highlighted statement?

issuevoter wrote on May 26^th, 2018 at 6:42pm:



What I believe is unimportant.  What real, true Christians believe is far more important, don't you think?  Mmmm?   

Brian Ross wrote on May 27^th, 2018 at 4:12pm:


Who is a real, true Christian, Bwian Mmmmm?? How do you recognise when they are 'real, true'?  Do you, unimportant looney that you are, have a way of  actually recognising 'real, true' Christians? Or are you just being your usual mentally negligible self?

Brian Ross wrote on May 27^th, 2018 at 4:12pm:


You are the fourth person, after Gregory Peckery, Gandalf and Frank, who has refused to answer a straight forward, one line, question from me. In each case it seemed to be a way for covering up something they believe.

Brian Ross wrote on May 24^th, 2018 at 9:59pm:

Deuteronomy 13 New International Version (NIV)
Worshiping Other Gods
13 [a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” 3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. 5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[b] both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, 17 and none of the condemned things[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors— 18 because you obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

Brian Ross wrote on May 24^th, 2018 at 9:59pm:

Numbers 31 New International Version (NIV)
Vengeance on the Midianites
31 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

3 So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the Lord’s vengeance on them. 4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.” 5 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. 6 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

7 They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man. 8 Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. 9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. 10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. 11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, 12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives. 20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the Lord gave Moses: 22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead 23 and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. 24 On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.”

Dividing the Spoils
25 The Lord said to Moses, 26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured. 27 Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community. 28 From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the Lord one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep. 29 Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s part. 30 From the Israelites’ half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.” 31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys 35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

36 The half share of those who fought in the battle was:

337,500 sheep, 37 of which the tribute for the Lord was 675;

38 36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the Lord was 72;

39 30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the Lord was 61;

40 16,000 people, of whom the tribute for the Lord was 32.

41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s part, as the Lord commanded Moses.

42 The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men— 43 the community’s half—was 337,500 sheep, 44 36,000 cattle, 45 30,500 donkeys 46 and 16,000 people. 47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the Lord commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.

48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—went to Moses 49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing. 50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

bwian is a hypocrite and inveterate liar...

How many times must you be told and corrected bwian?

Christianity which follows the teachings of christ who wasn't born in the Old testament or the Hebrew Bible.

You made the claim re Deuteronomy..

Here is the important part that shoots you down again...

Quote:


So that refers to what time bwian and what people?

You are such a disingenuous prat.

point 1.  Not all Christians are Catholic or hold Catholic beliefs.
point 2.  the Old Testament is the Hebrew bible.
point 3.  the Hebrew bible is the religious history of the Jews.
point 4.  I already hinted about the relevance...  I suggest you pay more attention next time.

Ahhh.....the dickhead's back...........hello pessary...

Grendel wrote on May 29^th, 2018 at 5:07pm:

How many times would you like me to point out your mistakes?

greggerypeccary wrote on May 29^th, 2018 at 5:47pm:


Yes, but Moslems == a follower of Islam.

Every Muslim is a Muslim and apparently everyone else is a Christian unless otherwise stated.
What is Ali Akbar in Christian.
I don't hear to many people going around calling themselves Christians, but Muslims on the other hand are obsessed with being Muslim, brainwashed from birth.
Watch out for bogeyman.

Frank wrote on May 29^th, 2018 at 10:10pm:

Articulation is not high on my priority list.

Mattyfisk wrote on May 29^th, 2018 at 9:07pm:

How many versions of islam is there and why do they keep trying to kill each other off?

Grendel wrote on May 30^th, 2018 at 9:27am:


Sorry, Grendel, I can't answer that one, dear.

As understudy, I may be called to play the lead role in Aussie's Broadway production of Moh: How Very Dare You.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 9^th, 2018 at 11:31am:

You need to avoid idiot LW memes etc, you know they are just propaganda or outright lies Gweggy....

They did their killing in the name of what?