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Psalm 137:9
RE: Psalm 137:9
Whatever happened to 'Mrs. Drich'?
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Trying to find the weasel-words to get out of his lying about having AIDS, no doubt.
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RE: Psalm 137:9
(February 19, 2012 at 6:10 pm)Forsaken Wrote: "How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock," (Psalm 137:9).

Below is the take from one of the apologetics.
http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/job-s...g-children

In a nutshell:
1) Just because the bible says so does not mean God approves it. (I thought the bible was the word of God Thinking )
2) You cannot judge God on his morality. Even if he commits atrocities, humans have no right to judge him on that.

this verse you isolated is symbolic, it has a symbolic meaning.
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Quote:What I am saying when the paslm in question was written the whole nation of Israel was conquered and taken by the philistines I believe and Everyone of sound body who was a jew were gather up and marched back to philistine and sold into slavery. This happened several times in the OT by different people. This song/psalm was written about the captors and their evil children.

The Philistines never expanded that far inland. 


Quote: this verse you isolated is symbolic, it has a symbolic meaning.

Symbolic?  Of what?  A psychotic god who wants children's head bashed in.
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RE: Psalm 137:9
(September 9, 2017 at 9:21 am)Joshua martin pryce Wrote: this verse you isolated is symbolic, it has a symbolic meaning.

It's a symbolic blessing for people who symbolically dash symbolic children against symbolic rocks?

That's a lot of symbolics.
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(September 9, 2017 at 11:08 am)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:What I am saying when the paslm in question was written the whole nation of Israel was conquered and taken by the philistines I believe and Everyone of sound body who was a jew were gather up and marched back to philistine and sold into slavery. This happened several times in the OT by different people. This song/psalm was written about the captors and their evil children.

The Philistines never expanded that far inland. 


Quote: this verse you isolated is symbolic, it has a symbolic meaning.

Symbolic?  Of what?  A psychotic god who wants children's head bashed in.

Depends on the kid too . . . .
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RE: Psalm 137:9
(September 9, 2017 at 9:21 am)Joshua martin pryce Wrote:
(February 19, 2012 at 6:10 pm)Forsaken Wrote: "How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock," (Psalm 137:9).

Below is the take from one of the apologetics.
http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/job-s...g-children

In a nutshell:
1) Just because the bible says so does not mean God approves it. (I thought the bible was the word of God Thinking )
2) You cannot judge God on his morality. Even if he commits atrocities, humans have no right to judge him on that.

this verse you isolated is symbolic, it has a symbolic meaning.
Symbolic, hmmmm over the pond we just call it Bollocks.
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Sorry for the late reply had the biggest hurricane ever just roll over my house.. took some time to get the inter webs back

(September 8, 2017 at 7:46 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: When I say slavery, I'm generally talking about owning other people as property while detaining/working them against their will. Let's deal with one issue at a time.
You mean like when a young mother of 4 has to works but hates her 3 jobs to support herself and her kids that she will never get to see?

Or do you mean like the woman who in ot times sold herself and family into slavery under a rich man who works 10 hours a day 6 days a week and exchange for her service she and her family needs are met with day to day needs and a small stipen for her extra good work?

Quote:"Society being built on" something doesn't make the thing good or acceptable, and being anti-slavery as a member of a late-stage-capitalist society where ethical consumerism is impossible doesn't make me a hypocrite.
Your half way there sport.. not only is it built it is currently maintained on the backs of modern day slaves. Meaning if you were to pul the slaves out of the system a great number of people could not afford to feed themselves. the 'system' would collapse back into calling a slave a slave. so to speak.

Quote: Even if it did, you're still basically dodging the question. Is slavery immoral, or isn't it?
The word and work of slaver in neither a good or bad thing. It all depends on who is using slavery, for what purpose and how they treat the people enslaved to them. We all are slaves to one degree or another if we go by your definition. so then all all forms bad? what happens when you endenture yourself to a bank for 30 years for a home? 5 more for the newest car? 10 more for an "education?" Or do you simply think one does want to give the prime of one's life and the lion's share of it's effort over to a bank?

Is that evil?

No more so than cutting out the middle man (Cash being the middle man) and calling a slave a slave. Cash is the illusion that makes you a slave feel free, when in fact most slaves to money work far harder than those who were called slaves in the OT

Quote:It doesn't really matter that this passage is from Psalms. The bible has no shortage of language like this in other books.
No it kinda does. It takes your argument that God is a blood thirsty monster who dashes babies against rocks, and re frames it to a slave "spiritual" singing about freedom and the opportunity to get back at their oppressors.

What it shows to the intellectually honest is the level of dishonesty in those who tend to just skim the bible for negative words and attribute them to God. In other words people like you don't care what the bible really has to say. you form an opinion like:
Quote:It doesn't really matter that this passage is from Psalms. The bible has no shortage of language like this in other books.
and then you seek anything that half way supports what you already think..

Confirm you bias much?

Your god is constantly smiting and commanding people to annihilate each other. He's basically a blood demon.
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Quote:Sorry for the late reply had the biggest hurricane ever just roll over my house.. took some time to get the inter webs back


I guess your praying didn't do shit, huh.
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That's an awfully long winded way to say; "Slavery not bad, according to Drich and Drichgod". There's no -need- to comb through magic book to find shit when you politely offer it up. You seem certain that the problem lies with atheists, when..obviously, the problem is one of your own creations.

The problem being that people will not agree with you, or your god, when you both purportedly insist upon "good slavery", the moral neutrality of slavery as an institution, the righteousness of slavery as punishment for the misdeeds of the parents.......and...subsequently, you (and your gods) own moral bona fides.

You are burning your own church to the ground, and you're doing it with considerable enthusiasm.
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