RE: To Christians...Theocracy?
January 10, 2015 at 10:19 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 10:21 am by robvalue.)
If you are spending a lot of time trying to show how the bible is saying the opposite of what it actually says, then there's something amiss.
I'm quite happy to agree the bible is entirely irrelevant, at best it was a moral code for the people of that time, it has no use to our society. So we can agree to ditch the thing. But if it's meant to be relevant now, you can't just ignore parts of it because you don't like them, or say which parts are and aren't relevant as you see fit.
I wish people would, and chuck out the blatantly horrible stuff. That would be just dandy by me. But I have suggested it before, and the theists blew their top at the idea of taking slavery endorsement out of the bible.
Let's see how relevant it is. Who knows the 10 commandments?
I'm quite happy to agree the bible is entirely irrelevant, at best it was a moral code for the people of that time, it has no use to our society. So we can agree to ditch the thing. But if it's meant to be relevant now, you can't just ignore parts of it because you don't like them, or say which parts are and aren't relevant as you see fit.
I wish people would, and chuck out the blatantly horrible stuff. That would be just dandy by me. But I have suggested it before, and the theists blew their top at the idea of taking slavery endorsement out of the bible.
Let's see how relevant it is. Who knows the 10 commandments?
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