(September 17, 2008 at 5:44 am)Tiberius Wrote:Quote:Jesus said to "love your enemies", "do good to those who hate you", "if some one strikes you on the side of your face, turn the other side to them".You do realize if you did this in real life you would get the shit kicked out of you? I agree with Hitchens on this one; such "morals" in the Bible are immoral when applied to a decent society.
Plus the quote, when in context has to do with the fact that if you're backhanded it's an insult, but if it's the other side it's not. Or something. I forget the details.
But it essentially didn't mean what we think it means today.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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