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How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
#11
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
Oh for fuck sake. Sorry, I'm too pissed off to be polite this evening.

Are you going to go through EVERY bit of the bible you don't like and post a thread on the lines of "It says this so that's not very nice is it" with that smug, superior air? Because frankly its fucking dull.

You know what? The bible advocates eating meat as well. Cute fluffy little lambs which scream when they are slaughtered while their mothers wring their hoofs wondering where their little treasures have gone. That's apparently equally immoral. Bastard fucking bible. Bastard fucking carnivores. Moral vacuums the lot of us. We could look at that, only most people are not as enlightened as you are are they.

Know what, If you don't like the bible, don't follow it. If you don't like other people telling you you should, take it up with them. I'm with you all the way on that one. But what could possibly be the benefit of these whinily triumphant little "I've spotted something dodgy in an ancient scroll, look how fucking enlightened I am" threads. Christians don't care what you think and have probably heard the arguments, at least 8,000 times before. You ain't convincing anyone there with your one liner little offerings. Atheists already probably agree. So aside from the circlejerk satisfaction of stating something we all aready know with the air that you are imparting some great and secret truth, what in the name of lucifers cock ring is the point of threads like this. Does it make you feel good LBD? Morally accomplished perhaps? Does it give you a tribal sense of belonging that everyone can see you don't like slavery?

Seriously. I'm curious. I'm all ears. What is your payoff from this thread. What do you hope to get from it. What does a good outcome look like for you.
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
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#12
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
What are u trying to say smooth?
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#13
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
I'm ranting. I have given my full quota of fucks for the day and have none left to give.
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
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#14
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
(January 23, 2014 at 2:54 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: I'm ranting.
NICE!
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#15
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
(January 23, 2014 at 2:55 pm)truthBtold Wrote:
(January 23, 2014 at 2:54 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: I'm ranting.
NICE!

You Bastard. You made me smirk.
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
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#16
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
Good, good Jacob, let the hate flow, feel it, embrace it, MAKE LOVE TO IT...

Oh wait, what was the topic again?
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#17
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
Quote:What is your payoff from this thread.

Personally? I love watching xtians squirm trying to get out from under the ramifications of shit like this.

But then, I'm not trying to win Miss Congeniality, either!
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#18
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
But we don't min! We ignore it, or rationalise it, or come up with a way it fits our own internal belief systems. Squirm implies a degree of discomfort. Drich may correct me here but I suspect he's suffered not one iota of doubt or difficulty. And people like me don't even believe the is inspired! Like feeding a hot chilli to someone to watch them suffer then discovering they don't mind mind hot chilli. All that's left is a feeling of "wow, I couldn't rationalise like that".
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
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#19
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
(January 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Seriously. I'm curious. I'm all ears. What is your payoff from this thread. What do you hope to get from it. What does a good outcome look like for you.

Pointing out the immorality in the "Goat Herders Guide to the Galaxy" is a great way to get believers to question the validity of the book.

I have seen many fundy Christians convert to more liberal sects because of this. Which is a great thing.

It is also a great way of discovering the sociopaths among believers.

If they try to tap dance around the issue, as most do, you know they are going through a major bout of cognitive dissonance. They are trying to reconcile their own superior morality with the morality in the Bible.

If, on the other hand, they agree, that it was moral because Yahweh said it is, and they'd own slaves if Yahweh says it's OK, then you know you have a sociopath on your hands.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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#20
RE: How can a book that tells you how to treat slaves possibly be valid moral guide
Quote:But we don't min!


No, Jake. YOU don't.

You are a little different from the run-of-the-mill jesus freak dirtbags we get around here.
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