(August 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 3:35 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: Presumably they do not follow the Mosaic laws about stonings and stuff (think we would have heard about it) so was curious what reason they give for this.
Grimesy
Obviously you don't keep yourself updated on the news. The radicals would. As has been shown just a few days ago by one of the stabbing participants of a gay pride parade. And another incident involving killing of a Palestinian child. Just as with any religious radicals it's only the law and society keeping them in check. But from what I know, they're becoming an increasing problem in certain parts of Jerusalem.
Yes, but why are not all religious Jews doing such things? Clearly, the god character in their sacred text approves of murder and rape, yet they mostly do not go along with what their writings say that their god approves of.
It is the same with Christians, who do not take their religious texts seriously.
But going back to the OP, what excuses do religious Jews in particular use to explain why it is that they are not stoning adulterers and such things? That is the question, and no one has really given an answer, beyond saying that they just say the same lame-ass bullshit as Christians. That may be correct, for all I know, but do we have any religious Jews who can tell us if this is so? Are the religious Jews as lame and stupid as the Christians? If not, then they should have a better answer to the question.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
