(March 6, 2012 at 10:46 am)Phil Wrote:(March 5, 2012 at 11:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Did you not read it?
YES I FUCKING READ IT
He's an apologist too...just like you. He's making excuses for his bullshit just like you are.
You are both blind because you oh-so-desperately want to believe that your fucking god is not just one more iron-age barbaric monstrosity.
You ( and he) are FUCKING WRONG. I do not need some apologetic asshole to explain the words to me. I can read them myself. You, obviously, cannot.
Now do you fucking get it?
This is simple shit....simple enough even for you. Jeptha makes a vow and keeps his vow. Figure it out.
Don't you just love it when christoholics and apologists use the Christian deluded version of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy? I wonder, ignoring the New Testament and ones obvious distaste of human sacrifice (IOW, no preconceived notions), how the hell does anyone get the idiotic interpretation of chiapet and his favorite apologist from reading the story in the Old Testament?
You say ignore the new testament because you think the old testament doesn't say human sacrifice is wrong? Well it does say its wrong. Deut 12:31
Quote: Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
As for the interpretation, it takes a little looking into because you see sacrifice and think death, but it's saying sacrifice and looking at Leviticus 27 definition that is clearly stated. Just because the words you're reading don't fit your definition doesnt mean it's rediculous to say so.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem