God, The GOP, and WTF in Oklahoma!

Duplicate post.

 

I think I've read more of the Bible than most Christians have. They tend to prefer that priests and prelates tell them what's in it and interpret it all for them. If they didn't, most of these frauds would be out of a job because they would have nothing to do.


The Bible means whatever any sect or believer chooses to think that it means and you can find a passage that will support just about any conviction or belief you happen to hold. For all your shall-not-kills there is another verse not just allowing but demanding that someone be killed. This doesn't make the Bible a very authoritative source for much of anything, does it?

 

I prefer to reference the Bible more as a guide, specifically the teachings of Jesus who taught peace and love. I believe "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a good command, though others certainly don't think so.

 

Another duplicate post... is something amiss with the server today???

 

A guide for what? A guide for what you already think?

 

Listen to the teachings of peace and love, decide if that's the path you want to follow, then follow the guide.

 

There are 613 commandments, according to some authorities. As for the vaunted "10 Commandments," I wonder which version you refer to? One version can be found in two places in the Bible (Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:5-21) and another in a yet a third place in the Bible (Exodus 34:1-27). I guess it depends on which preacher one listens to, or something.

 

OK, 10 in mine and 613 in yours. You win!

 

Bronze Age wisdom was fine 2000 years ago. I'm sure it served to get us at least part of the way to where we are now and it also kept us from getting here sooner in other ways. Isn't it really about time we come up with new set of guiding principles more akin to the modern world we actually live in? Why live by the edicts of some guys that couldn't even imagine bread without worms?

 

Some things are eternal and don't need changing regardless of the era in which we live.

 

"Eternal"? Like all the parts of the bible that deal with stonings, women as property, goats, and loads of other irrelevant dogma that has nothing to do with modern society? Yea! Eternal.

 

Exactly. What you get in the Bible are few nice moral commonplaces which predate it and are found in moral teachings all over the world. The rest of it is ignorance, magic, mystic vaporings, and Bronze Age tribal barbarity. And of course contradictions. Lots and lots of contradictions.

 

This coming from the guy who wants to change the Constitution and who advocates violence. No, but thanks for your input anyway.

 

You've read the Bible. If you didn't get anything good out of it, oh well.

 

Oh don't start this. Go back and read the post. Are the words, "nice moral commonplaces" written in a language you don't understand?

 

The language of truth and facts regularly confuse him.

 

When cornered by facts, always move directly to the personal attacks.

 

If you got something good out of the Bible, I'm happy for you. Hopefully, whatever good moral lessons you gleaned have helped you in your life.

 

I respect facts. In fact, I just presented you with two of them:

1. You want to change the Constitution

2. You advocate violence

 

I see your problem. You can't tell the difference between your opinion and facts. Fortunately, we can.