Don't Shit in your own home, God says NO!

[Minimalist]

However that law only applies to those who chose to live a life in acceptance of God,

Making more shit up to make yourself feel better, eh G-C? Let's see where your fucking godboy said that. Your opinion is pretty much worthless.

[Whateverist]

God knows we are smart enough to know this commandment only applies to those who might live in a similar situation as the Israelites did at that time.

Glad to see a Christian willing to think outside the box. So many things that just didn't make sense for desert nomads two thousand years ago are beside the point now. The same should be true of women in charge, gay marriage, recreational sex with condoms and the day after pill for when the damn things just don't work right. God didn't give us billions of sperms over our life time just to use a precious few to help over populate the earth. God made sex fun and science helps make it safer.

[passionatefool]

Deuteronomy 23:12-14
You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement. Since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

yes, god created human and make them take shit, he made them take shit, and he is disgusted by it. I guess this is why christians are full of shit.

[reverendjeremiah]

Since we do not live in desert camps and the toilet has it's place in our homes God knows we are smart enough to know this commandment only applies to those who might live in a similar situation as the Israelites did at that time.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Matthew 5:18

I hate having to remind you about your fucking bible, G-C. Maybe you should read the goddamn thing instead of simply mouthing off about it.

Sounds to me like your 'god' may be getting ready to take a big shit on your head for your heresy.

The reason you know it's there is because what Christ said is true. However that law only applies to those who chose to live a life in acceptance of God, who themselves live in an outdoor community. This law was given to a community of people who dwelt in an outdoor situation. Though I know you can not understand simple things, there it is in black and white. If those brilliant Europeans you so love had listened to God's word they may have not suffered the sicknesses that were so rampant for them, living with excrement in the streets seems to have that effect on people, actually they could have benefited from many of the cleanness laws of the scriptures.

Actually, you are ALMOST completely correct.

In reality this is a rule for people BACK THEN. This has absolutely nothing to do with modern people.

Most everything in the bible is rules for people living back then, and has no bearing on modern, 21st century people.

If god wanted modern people to follow these rules, he would have mentioned plumbing, electronic flush toilets, or anything to point out that he knew about the future.

He did no such thing, therefore, it can be ignored.

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Deuteronomy 23:12-14
You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement. Since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

And this is supposed to be a joke, or serious?
I can't really tell the difference sometimes.

The bible is a fucking joke.

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

Fuck the lord....but I don't think you'll be invited back.

I don't what to do that. Then I'd have to pay god's dad fifty shekels of silver and then marry him. Granted he's loaded, but who would want to be associated with that?

[reverendjeremiah]

God knows we are smart enough to know this commandment only applies to those who might live in a similar situation as the Israelites did at that time.

Glad to see a Christian willing to think outside the box. So many things that just didn't make sense for desert nomads two thousand years ago are beside the point now. The same should be true of women in charge, gay marriage, recreational sex with condoms and the day after pill for when the damn things just don't work right. God didn't give us billions of sperms over our life time just to use a precious few to help over populate the earth. God made sex fun and science helps make it safer.

I agree. The entire Bible is nothing more than outdated societal rules. Im glad GC brought it up. None of the rules in that book have any bearing on the 21st century, and the book should be shelved collecting dust.

Lets make new rules for the 21st century. fuck them old goat herders. What the fuck did they know of machine guns, the net, airplanes, space ships, preservatives, or anything else in our modern society? not a damn thing. So i am in the least bit interested in what they have to say about how to live life.

Now, if i was living back 3 thousand years ago with them, then MAYBE (and thats a strong maybe) I would comply with these rules...but today? fuck no.

we are a modern world, and the bible fails as a guide.

[Godscreated]

Since we do not live in desert camps and the toilet has it's place in our homes God knows we are smart enough to know this commandment only applies to those who might live in a similar situation as the Israelites did at that time.

That certainly makes sense.

Though it does also raise a question: which of the other commandments are inapplicable to modern age non-desert dwellers, and how do we know that your god is OK with it?

Furthermore, absent divine instruction applicable to our own living situation, how are we to know what we are supposed to be doing?

For example, is there anyone we should smite? There aren't many Canaanites around here, to be sure.

The point of this being - if non-Israelite humans are smart enough to figure out for themselves what laws and sanitary practices are needed for good living, why would the Isrealites need such instruction? Were they too stupid to figure it out? Or were the laws not from god, but were those very things that the Isrealites figured out for themselves and wrote into law?

Christ said, "love thy enemies," this does not mean in any way that we can not defend ourselves, we should however aid those who hate us, when they are in need. America does this better than any nation I know. God expects use to use the brains he gave us to determine the old laws that do and do not apply, it should be done through discussion with others to see how they may or may not apply. Paul under authority of Christ showed us that the Jewish food laws do not apply to Gentiles. So we are to use our brains to discern and not to abuse the laws of God.

[Erinome]

I'm sure that God sat there in heaven watching people die of the plague saying, "I know these poor people can't read Latin, but that's no excuse for not burying their shit."

I love how you blame people for their own death via pestilence without even knowing a thing about bible history. If you did, you'd know that those "brilliant Europeans" couldn't read the bible unless they were privileged and wealthy enough to be taught how to read in their own language, much less Latin.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/Plai...oryid=ac66

And I am so sure that those people could have benefited from reading all those wonderful passages in Deuteronomy. Did I mention that I became an atheist by reading the bible, and was most repulsed by Deuteronomy? Maybe if they had been allowed to read it sooner, we wouldn't be plagued by Christianity today.

You know what my favorite cleanliness law is in the scripture? The one that says the whole town should pitch in to clean up all the naughty children. That one was so precious.

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

You know what my favorite cleanliness law is in the scripture? The one that says the whole town should pitch in to clean up all the naughty children. That one was so precious.

That sounds like something that would go over well in New York or Chicago.