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Piper, I can quote bible verses with the best of them if you really want just bring it on. I will show you just how cruel and sadistic your god is.

@CP quoting Bible verses is what childern in Sunday School learn. As an adult you should have learned to take all scripture relating to a subject and determine the meaning of the verses pertaining to the subject. In Exodus 21:17 you want it to say God is a killer of little childern.

Are you suggesting that you weren't once a 6 year old son? 'His' judgement was blind... and the verdict quite clear: the firstborn son of every family that did not respect the 'passover' would be smitten. This includes the elderly, middle aged, young adults, adolescents, small children, toddlers, infants, and newborns alike. I don't see why anyone would focus on specifically the children... but it would have been true that children were slain by this monstrosity you call "God". A few better quotes for displaying "God's" love for children can be taken from Elijah(?) and the She Bears, a number of laws and orders to the victorious army of Israel, and from Jesus himself.

When in reality it says nothing about little childern. I'm well past 30 yet I'm still my mothers child and if I were to disrespect her my father (if he were still living) would want to take my head off and I would not blame him.

What do you mean by 'disrespect her'... and are you not your father's son? He sounds like a bastard... I blame him entirely for apparently not being able to hold his cool.

You need to look at all the verses and then determine what is meant. If you will I believe you'll find that even though the word childern is used it relates to grown childern trying to ruin the reputation of their parents.

By looking at all of the verses, one can conclude that what is meant is exactly what is said. And one can further that what is said is utter hogwash in almost every instance (if indeed not every single sentence).

If I would... then I would be forgetting that children is in almost every case used to define young humans. Would it not then, be an oxymoron, to suppose "grown children"? Don't get them wet or feed them after midnight?

In those ancient times honoring parents was a big part of their society this was one way of holding community together. So for children to disrespect parents was to disrespect the social order of that time.

In those ancient times tyrannical monarchies were a big part of society, one of the ways of holding a community together. So for anyone to disrespect the monarchy was to disrespect the social order of that time.

Sound familiar much? Point being that it is completely irrelevant to everything, and no more attention should be given to respecting parents than is given to respecting other governing forces.

We could use much more of that today but individualism no matter the cost seems to be more important today.
In that last sentence I'm not saying we should kill people for disrespect of parents in todays society so don't go there.

We actually could use a lot more parents worth respecting... considering how outlandish the parenting systems are for a child if they do not get the best scenarios. Individualism is key, lest we share the fate of the Borg or other 'hive mind' system. But there is no reason individualism means we don't respect other... in fact it is by recognizing one for being their individual self that we truly respect them at all... rather than applying that respect to their title or respect out of fear.