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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 8:21 am
On Moses...
from numbers 31:14
Quote:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 9:16 am
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Just more stories in service of stories Average. Exodus simply doesn't appear to have happened, not even by means of volcanoes, tsunamis or mis-translation. Just didn't happen, period. It's a myth about a deliverer. Pretty common type of myth right there, in fact the entire narrative of both the OT and NT revolves around the mythical prophetic cycle of mythical deliverers.
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 9:32 am
(March 15, 2012 at 9:16 am)Rhythm Wrote: Just more stories in service of stories Average. Exodus simply doesn't appear to have happened, not even by means of volcanoes, tsunamis or mis-translation. Just didn't happen, period. It's a myth about a deliverer. Pretty common type of myth right there, in fact the entire narrative of both the OT and NT revolves around the mythical prophetic cycle of mythical deliverers.
Yes, I quite believe that too
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 9:37 am
So we safely assume that G-C and any other Abrahamic religious nutjob sexually abuses their own children (as a form of deistic command) and feel that it is OK to rape, pillage and kill others who are not of their own little petty clique?... but hey...their deity lubbs you. 
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 10:14 am
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Mohammed's wife was only six years old so its in every religion, seems like
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 10:16 am
Which is my point for ALL Abrahamic religions .... I think I mentioned this?? hmmm >_<
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 10:39 am
No belief is required for that statement to hold Average 
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 12:32 pm
(March 15, 2012 at 10:39 am)Rhythm Wrote: No belief is required for that statement to hold Average
Perhaps you're all too clever for me then
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 12:50 pm
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Hehehe, I'm just nitpicking buddy, you have to be careful with words like "belief" around this place, there are predators about. They never miss an opportunity to equate their beliefs with other's dry statements of facts. In fact, Im pretty sure that if such opportunities were not presented to them, they'd starve, and go off in search of more fertile hunting grounds, like swingsets and jungle gyms.
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RE: How Can Christians Still Believe??
March 15, 2012 at 1:02 pm
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(March 15, 2012 at 9:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: So we safely assume that G-C and any other Abrahamic religious nutjob sexually abuses their own children (as a form of deistic command) and feel that it is OK to rape, pillage and kill others who are not of their own little petty clique?... but hey...their deity lubbs you.
I'm aware of verses which encourage stoning disobedient children but I'm not aware of anything in the Bible which condones pedophilia.
(March 15, 2012 at 8:21 am)Zen Badger Wrote: On Moses...
from numbers 31:14
Quote:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Nice.
This pretty much proves the point of why I think its dubious that any Christian, Jew or Muslim should be any position of government. If they're going to say a book that professes such is the Word of God and the highest moral authority.
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