There is a warlord in Africa who uses the same argument. He and his army of enslaved child soldiers will rape, massacre, butcher, kidnap, torture, and forcibly mutilate the populations, all the while kidnaping and forcibly recruiting more children, many as young as three, to do unspeakable deeds.
All in the name of God.
He has said his goal is to build a new goverment based on the ten commandments. He claims to recieve his instructions from angels. He tells the children God will strike them down if they try to escape. And he points to passages in the Bible; the destruction of Soddom and Gommarah, the Great Flood, and other great disasters invoked by God, as justification for his actions.
Never assume God is on your side, strive to be on the side of God.
) because since I believed in God and that Jesus was sent to save the world, I would still go to heaven. He wasn’t completely reckless, though, because he did tell me that because of that belief in God and Jesus’s resurection, I should act in ways that were pleasing to God, but not to the point that I would be condemned to hell if I didn’t act properly.
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