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Originally posted by MMPI2
Originally posted by MolecularPhD
I would like to make clear that I am in no way promoting Christian Doctrine. ...
I wanted to make this clear as to stop the posting of those that would say I am directly promoting the Christian Faith.
Sincerely
TheGhost
Goodness knows, we can't have anybody talking about Jesus Christ, or the 10 Commandments, or doing good and loving your neighbor here on ATS....
Now, I'd like to speak a little bit about someone who needs to be in your life. His name is Lucifer, and you should think about what he can do for YOU!
Originally posted by MolecularPhD
reply to post by LDragonFire
That is not true. I spent twelve and half years as an Officer in the US Army; and on several Occasions was forced to take the Greyhound or Amtrak to different bases. I always carried my service sidearm, often times caring other weapons of personal protection as well.
Originally posted by Grey Magic
when does this crap stop, the last time when a guillotine was used in good fashion was 17 January 1793.
In 1933 Adolf Hitler had a guillotine constructed and tested. He was impressed enough to order 20 more constructed and pressed into immediate service. Nazi records indicate that between 1933 and 1945, 16,500 people were executed in Germany and Austria by this method. In Nazi Germany, beheading by guillotine was the usual method of executing convicted criminals as opposed to political enemies, who were usually[citation needed] either hanged or shot. By the middle of the war, however, policy changed: the six members of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance organisation were beheaded in 1943, as were a hundred or more conscientious objectors from that date, including Franz Jägerstätter, beheaded in Berlin on 9 August 1943. The last execution in what would later become West Germany took place on 11 May 1949, when 24-year-old Berthold Wehmeyer was beheaded in Moabit prison, West Berlin, for murder and robbery. When West Germany was formed in 1949, its constitution prohibited the death penalty; East Germany abolished it in 1987, and Austria in 1968.
The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until France abolished the death penalty in 1981.[13] The last guillotining in France was that of torture-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on September 10, 1977.
Originally posted by randyvs
That being said I follow Christ and his teachings. I don't see how guillotines PROMOTE christian doctine.
Revelation 20:4
Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Clearly absent from this passage is any mention of a guillotine. In fact one could just as easily say that these souls were beheaded via knife/ sword as is popular with Islamic extremists, but that too would be jumping to conclusions because the fact is the passage does not describe how it happens. Some people are looking for evidence of the End Times in the strangest places, I find it really odd because there are plenty of signs to look at all around us without dreaming up secret guillotines hidden on military bases.