(July 16, 2015 at 9:13 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 7:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Did the Egyptian first-born have rights? How about the children of people God stated would be punished even up to the fourth generation? How about the children in Sodom and Gomorrah? How about all the people wiped out in the great flood in which Noah magically put all species of animal into a big boat? What I'm saying is that the idea of rights is not consistent with the Bible.
That would not be true. Justice and Mercy are the only modifying circumstances of rights. Christians and Jews believe in a eternally just God. Any innocent caught-up in acts of Divine retribution will be recompensed as promised in Rev. 21:4 - "He will wipe the tears from their eyes..." and Joel 2:25 - "I will restore the years the locusts have eaten..."
From previous threads I know the political views of many atheist members and they are overwhelmingly liberal. From the comments above it is clear that liberals cannot be trusted to protect anyone's rights and generally are in favor of meddling and regulating them away (like Parkers Tan who clearly has totalitarian sympathies) when it suits their agendas.
Wow. If you are going to support the Bible, at least actually read it, or don't lie about it. There are very many cases where innocents were killed by God or those acting in the name of God. Where are the rights of those innocents?
