(June 25, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The Bible is rather contradictory on this point. God punishes Cain for killing Abel. And god does command, thou shalt not kill. But god kills a whole number of first born Egyptians himself. And he orders his people to kill rape victims, whole cities just for being on land he wants for his people. God seems rather more ambivalent about killing than I am.
Well he can, "because God"
Christian logic...
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie