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Christianity: An Addiction of Violence Masquerading as Love: Part I

If the Holy Bible proves anything at all, it proves that the Christian God has a blood-lust like no other God in history. From Abraham to Jesus to the end times to eternal hell, the Christian God loves suffering even more than, or at least as much as, said God loves Himself. And if everything from the genocides in the Old Testament and God killing everyone on the planet with a flood, to Jesus being tortured and murdered (rather than the devil, who is the guilty one) and the fiery end of the world followed by the never ending fires of hell, are not enough to convince you that Christianity is really an addiction to violence masquerading as "love," just consider the psychotic rantings of a Catholic priest trying to convince his faithful flock that murder and mutilation - which he calls "punishment" -  are proof of just how much his "God" is pure love.  In an article published on https://catholicexchange.com/gods-punishment-is-just-restorative-and-medicinal/,

A Virgin Birth: How a Mistranslation Gave Birth to a Miracle

“Just because you're taught that something's right and everyone believes it's right,  it don't make it right.” Mark Twain   Tis the season to celebrate how easy it is for truth to be whatever you simply choose to believe it is, allowing one person’s mistranslation to become another person’s miracle of a virgin birth. More than the result of divine intercession, however, such a “miracle” is the result of a need to pretend to know the mind of an omnipotent intelligence better than any rudimentary understanding of linguistics, let alone the problems that arise from playing the telephone game. Ironic, yes, but not surprising in the least, given the history with which Christians have chosen to label those they feared for being different as “heretics” and “witches.” The question is why. To answer this question, we have to return to the third century BCE, when the confusion all began. At that time, the Hebrew Bible was being translated into the Greek Septuagint. In t