This one is making the rounds, both on ABC's The View and by a religious leftist who says we need to wrestle with violence in the Scriptures. The hostesses of The View says Hitler was a Christian, so who are Christians today to moralize about ISIS? To me, it doesn't matter whether, hypothetically, Hitler or Timothy McVeigh yelled "I kill in the name of Christ!"  (Neither one claimed Christianity; both rejected it.)  We would judge them by their fruit and their conformity to the New Testament. Which bring us to the religious leftist. He is right that Christians need to wrestle with Old Testament violence, though he correctly says the New Testament has "turned a page."  But then he claims that New Testament rhetoric has it that Jesus preached violence against Jews.  Really?  Where is the verse? Further, where is the verse that commands the church as a church to pick up swords...(Read Full Post)