[Dick Tayshone]

What I am curious about is how Christians tend to interpret the Bible to suit them. As far as I know the original scriptures was translated and re-interpreted over the ages by human beings. Do you want to tell me that this does not ensure subjectivity at the very least. Obviously those translations and interpretations had to be cleared by some or the other head of whatever church and surely he or she adds further subjectiveness. Furthermore, such translations and interpretations do not happen in a vacuum, but within the confines of what is the current state of politics and world influences.

What happened to the Christians in Germany during the Second World War when the Nazi’s ruled supreme? Did you hear any of their church leaders standing up and condemning Nazism as devilish and that the christians in Germany should rise and demolish this political belief (Nazism)? Outside Nazi Germany perhaps, but inside Nazi Germany? Not as far as I know.

In dealing with the Protestant Church, the Nazis found a willing supporter in Pastor Ludwig Muller. He was appointed by the Nazis to be the Evangelical Bishop of the German Reich in 1933. Soon after his appointment, Muller amended Christian teachings in line with Nazi ideas. Many thousands of Protestants who did not follow the new Christian teaching were sent to the concentration camps.

The same happened in the Catholic church. The influence of the catholic church and the pope in the trade of the ‘Black Ship’ between the east and the west in the early European history, is another example. The ‘Black ship’ was only allowed to operate and transport the riches of the world if a Cardinal was part of the passengers list. To keep an eye on the trading obviously and to take control of the part of the spoils that ‘belongs’ to the church, when the ship arrives in port. I am sure that the pope then had a perfect 'biblical' reason for doing the above?