RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 19, 2013 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2013 at 11:36 am by Cyberman.)
(September 19, 2013 at 11:26 am)John V Wrote:(September 19, 2013 at 11:05 am)Ryantology Wrote: If you insist that the rules only apply to people not in authority, that's special pleading.No, it's recognition of two different classes, and that some rules apply differently to the two.
So biblical authority, or at least your espousing of it, hasn't even caught up to the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. I'd have liked to think we were a bit more enlightened than that as a species.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
