(September 10, 2010 at 5:41 pm)norbrook Wrote: yep, again, totally get what you are saying, bad bits?...hmmmm, well i wouldn't call them that, but that was the old testament you were quoting from... the old laws, Jesus came and tore the whole thing up, showed us how to live, im a Christian, meaning i follow Christ and his teachings. dodgy guide though? its obviously going to be it you quote things out of context
In what context is that an acceptable teaching? Please enlighten me. Also, even if Jesus did abolish the law, that still means that that was God's word at one point. So, were the OT's teachings not morally right at the time? Or is God just cruel and capricious?
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
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'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
