RE: Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory
January 2, 2012 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 2:06 am by LarissaAnn.)
(January 2, 2012 at 12:06 am)chipan Wrote: you give me the impression that i did not address a question you had. can you tell me exactly which question i did not address?
My two big questions I posed that I was hoping you would answer, which you skipped over, were:
1. What does God have to say about rape victims today? Does he still think they should be the wives of their rapists? If not, where are your sources in writing not personal opinion that he has changed his mind? Basic point being don't you think since the bible was written for a culture 2000 years ago, as you've said, that God should give us an updated version for our modern times?
2. If making gay illegal is not intolerance, then what do you think the fitting punishment should be for homosexuality? Jail? Or the traditional Christian route in the bible with execution?
Then this question as well I was hoping to hear your answer:
On the topic of America so corrupt without biblical guidance that it sues for stupid reasons. What is more immoral or damaging to a society, non believers suing for a stupid reason or a woman in the middle east stoned to death because the quran said to stone her? Does this not prove that just because you have a holy book to teach morals in a soceity doesn't mean everyone will do so? In the 50's in America religion was much more strong than it is today but yet look how much racism, prejudice and violence existed back then.
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To be fair I'll address the question you posed about getting rid of politics just because of Hitler.
I'd say no, don't get rid of politics just because Hitler was mental case. However I do support getting rid of certain branches of politics, Nazism, Socialism, dictatorships etc. or politics fueled by hysteria and brainwashing absolutely get rid of them...and to be honest religion doesn't walk too far a path from that sort of craze that put Hitler in power in my opinion, as in following blindly and without question and turning a blind eye to atrocities it committed.
If I've skipped any others of yours, please do re-post them.
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~*~Live a good life. If there are Gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are Gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no Gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones - Marcus Aurelius~*~
~*~Live a good life. If there are Gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are Gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no Gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones - Marcus Aurelius~*~