(February 13, 2013 at 2:02 am)Drich Wrote:(February 13, 2013 at 1:29 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Wow... really? It was asked several times through this thread, which means maybe the answer is more important than the flippant response you just gave me... but, whatevs.Not just Jews, Old Testament Jews. And yes.
So your god is ok with people burning other people alive as long as Jews are doing the burning?
Why? The the act (any act) it self has no intrinsic 'moral' value in God's economy. What makes an act righteous or evil is not the act itself but how that act correlates to God's expressed will. In other words God's expressed will is what makes something sinful, not how we "feel" about something.
For OT Jews they were to burn witches. For New Testament Christians they are to follow Peter's example in acts 8:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...on=NIV;KJV
This is why I can identify the actions of burning anyone as a non Christian act.
(February 13, 2013 at 1:56 am)Aegrus Wrote: If the Jews weren't in a conspiracy to overthrow Europe, why did the Nazis attempt to exterminate them?So your saying despite what a give person maybe able to do, people can perceive them as something and still act on that perception even if they are not really guilty of what they have been accused of?
Simply put; people can be wrong. The fact that someone was punished does not necessarily mean they were guilty of a crime.
So really if you think about it does not really matter if someone is really a witch or not does it?
I'm sorry, is it news to you that people can be falsely accused of a crime?
How. . . the hell. . .would it not matter if an innocent person was burned?
If anyone hear's a loud thunk, that's the sound of my faith in humanity dropping out of my ass and going through the floor.
What falls away is always, and is near.
Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD