(March 31, 2017 at 9:27 am)Drich Wrote:(March 31, 2017 at 9:13 am)Brian37 Wrote: You getting offended does not make me "smug", the feeling you are having is called cognitive dissonance.
Laws in the modern west are consented to. The laws of the bible reflect the real kingdoms of antiquity, and back then, even in polytheism, humans lived under ruling families who did not need their subject's permission to rule over them. Not my baggage you don't want to accept that. That book does not reflect modern society, it was written for the societies of that time.
When I say "THERE ARE NO RULES IN CHRISTIANTY" What does that mean?
Then you need to argue with other Christians, you are about the only Christian I have ever heard make this argument. But that scares the shit out of me buddy, I like having laws against things like child rape and murder and robbery. I like having seat belt laws and speed limits. But if you like a no rules society great, try Somalia, it is run completely by mostly warlords with a very corrupt government.
This is simply new word salad and the same attempt with different word arrangements I have seen before where Christians try to separate the NT from the OT, and we still have to continually point out the NT contradictions where the Jesus character DOES say he came to fill the OT laws.
Still does not matter to me anyway because he/daddy/skitzo at the end of the book goes right back to being a vindictive bully who throws everyone who didn't kiss his ass into eternal torture. The only thing I give you credit here for doing is creating new word salad, new lipstick on a pig argument to justify the same arguments.
That book was written in a very tribal time when city states ruled by kings competed for resources and back then the mortality rate was really high so back then it was far more important to be loyal to the state king you lived under, but that was also the case in polytheism too.
That book is not the good book you want it to be. You want to paint me as mean or bigoted because the thought of being wrong frightens you. No, I am giving you the psychology in time frame for that time because humans didn't know any better and that is what they thought at the time as being right. That is why you see words like "lord" and "master" and "kingdom" in that book, because that is the way humans lived back then. It has no reflection of modern science nor does it reflect our far more humane western concept of pluralism. It is a tribal book written to draw the reader in to defend the tribe.
