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Sorry, but there does not appear to be any higher.Go higher.
I take it you don't believe Jesus walked on water.
Why are you bringing ME into this?
This is between you and God.
Love their enemies?
Ya -- the KKK comes to mind.
But academia does too, when they get on my case for not owning slaves with respect to [their interpretation of] the Bible.
It's like they want to start another civil war or something.
(And I could go on about the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Witch Hunts, all passed off in colleges as Biblically-motivated atrocities done with respect to the Bible.)
Just say NO.
Should I switch my avatar to Norma McCorvey, so you guys will appreciate it more?
Except that we see the Bible being used most often in history to justify racism. Look at the arguments of the Confederate States to justify their slavery of Africans, or even the arguments used to justify the slave trade.
So to even imagine that evolution can be used to promote racism is just flat out and flagrantly wrong and idiotic.
Did you just compare Jesus walking on water with drowning the entire planet? Yes...you just did.
And therein lies the problem with your position. You treat it as just a story. A story where the facts and the evidence can be twisted pretzel-like to justify your belief.
They say that one death can be a tragedy, but a million is just a statistic. And you seem to have no concept of what it is you claim happened. You seem to be totally unaware of the sheer terror of what you believe happened. The absolute horror of what it entailed. And the morality of the act doesn't seem to register. 'Hey, there must have been a good reason for it, so let's move on'.
But if killing every man, woman and child is somehow justifiable to you, then literally anything is justifiable to you.
And that's what is chilling.
That sounds good, but in practice it dors not work out.That just a good reason why it’s important for people to know their Bible so they can expose the false professors and their errors.
I can see how this might be a concern, and I think it's a legitimate one with all of the crazy things that go on in our world. But in offering your evaluation of me, you now have me concerned about you. You say you can't see how an ancient account of a so-called act of “divine omnicide” doesn't actually translate into an across the board directive for any Christian simply to drop what they're doing and go and attempt to do likewise. Really?You don't have to. There's no compulsion. But if you thought omnicide was justifiable then I can't see that you could claim anything else could be deemed unjustifiable. Literally anything goes. And the very best that could be said about it would be 'Gee, there must be something that makes it morally correct but, I dunno, I just don't know what it is'.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, knowing what “God wants” is a complex thing, even a complicated one. This is peculiarly so where the application of moral tropes from the Bible is concerned, and in this, I think we can both acknowledge that it's those who think Christian moral deliberation is a simple thing who have the most problem in sorting out their emotional penchants for unjustified violence from authentic moral actions.And that will be the justification for any atrocity: 'I'm certain it's what God wants'. So I don't have a problem with God's sense of morality. My problem is with those who will accept anything that they think His sense of morality will allow.
Are we done now?And you are the subject of recent posts because you do believe it and, more to the point of these recent posts, seem to have no concept of the magnitude of the horror and likewise find it justifiable.
You were there?Drown their children?
Do YOU consider him to be a Christian?Someone who apparently considered himself
a Christian told me he prays for Word that its time for him to start killing the atheists.
Its not unusual for people to think that they get Messages.
That just a good reason why it’s important for people to know their Bible so they can expose the false professors and their errors.
I've never really had a problem in discerning between real life and make-believe, or between my own human ethical outlook and a divine one that is clearly encased within the conceptual matrix of an ancient, foreign culture.
Adding today's science into the Bible breeds hostility, doesn't it?I am bothered when people try to inject ancient and alien notions into our modern culture, which is why my original post that started this kerfuffle was a demonstration that the genetic evidence disproves the omnicide implied in this ancient (and I suggest) fictional story.
Except that we see the Bible being used most often in history to justify racism. Look at the arguments of the Confederate States to justify their slavery of Africans, or even the arguments used to justify the slave trade.
So to even imagine that evolution can be used to promote racism is just flat out and flagrantly wrong and idiotic.
I would also point out that the Bible was equally quoted, most likely more so, by those who were opposed to slavery.
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