RE: "Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?
May 22, 2015 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2015 at 7:19 pm by Salacious B. Crumb.)
(May 22, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 7:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: So we have Moses, bringing "his people" from Egypt to Mt. Sinai where Jehova gives him the ten commandments...
And one of them is simply "you shall not murder", but... but... what did god do with all the plagues he sent down on Egypt, particularly the one with all the firstborns, if not murdering?
What sort of moral authority does such a being have to tell his "children" not to murder when that's exactly what he did a couple of pages back?!
The Command is you shall not Murder.
The difference between killing and murder?
Authorization. If God authorizes the taking of human life it is not a murder, because He holds the right to all life in His hands.
You're seriously out of your mind for believing that because god says to murder someone in a storybook, it must mean that if he asks someone in reality, then it's ok.
Thankfully, murder is illegal, regardless of religion in this country. Christian whack jobs would be claiming god was urging them to murder people who disagree with them every day.
And you can disregard my last message in the 'biblical prayer contradictions' too. I gave you a little too much respect by assuming you thought the old testament god was bad.
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