(June 30, 2015 at 10:43 am)Easy Guns Wrote: It really just boils down to the same tactics they all use to defend their bible. When they don't like what it says, it's just an analogy and we should look deeper in to the true meaning. When they do like what it says, than its god's word and we should blindly obey.
Total nonsense either way.
A Parable IS an analogy, That's what Jesus is known for.
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. - Matthew 13:13
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parable
Quote:Parable
noun
1. a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
2. a statement or comment that conveys a meaning indirectly by the use of comparison, analogy, or the like.
You guys try to twist an ANALOGY into a license for beating servants, yet got all bent out of shape when Randy "implied" the quote from Sam Harris condones rape.
(June 26, 2015 at 9:06 pm)Esquilax Wrote:Apparently all you guys took from Jesus PARABLE is that he condoned the beating of slaves.....(June 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: DO ATHEISTS CONDONE RAPE?
"If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion."
Atheist Sam Harris, Interview at The Sun: The Temple of Reason
If you honestly believe that the contention of that quote is "rape is good," then you are a bigger fool than even I'd taken you for.
So I want to hear you say it. I want to hear you actually assert your position regarding this quote: just say "I believe that Sam Harris is saying that he thinks rape is good, in the quote I supplied."
It's either that, or back down from your smug little bolded opening...
(June 30, 2015 at 8:52 am)Nope Wrote: The verses explaining his parable make Jesus' analogy worse because he doesn't even address the issue of a man beating his slaves so apparently, Jesus wasn't against slavery or beating slaves.
Hypocrites
