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February 7, 2010 at 4:03 am
The intentions of the Founding Fathers was to deny women rights from owning property to voting. It was their intention to have half the colonies as slave states where blacks counted as 3/5 ths of a person, and to wage a genocidal war against the natives in order to steal their land. The constitution also states there will be no peace time standing army. I wonder how long this nation would last if we went back to what our wonderful Founding Fathers wanted?
As far as economics, we are no longer the simple agricultural society with a near monopoly on the world's biggest cash crop.
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February 7, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Here's another one Kensington rune stone, hoax or authentic? New evidence shows that it's feasibly authentic. What does that denote towards templars/viking actually founding U.S.A.?
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February 8, 2010 at 12:51 am
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Quote:heretic how? We say the Bible is the living word of God on a weekly basis in our church.
Christians claim The Bible is the inerrant word of God.The the degree of literalism depends on which flavour one chooses. Christian beliefs are based on a dogmatic canon which has not changed since the C4th CE
Political constitutions remain always subject to change and to even being abolished. This cannot be said of the Torah, The New Testament nor the Qur'an. As far as I'm aware, the last time such a thing was attempted was when the Gospel of Thomas was found at Nag Hammadi in 1945. The Christian churches had a collective hissy fit and rejected it outright.
The American Constitution was adopted in 1787. Since that time there have been 27 amendments, the first ten introducing The Bill Of Rights (1789).To the best to my knowledge there have been no officially recognised amendments to the new testament.
My crack about heresy was in reference to changing the Bible. IN that sens the Bible is anything but 'a living document'
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February 8, 2010 at 6:11 am
Is that signature the modern definition or the ancient Greek?
Ok here's my feeling on it, I believe you're making an incorrect analogy. God doesn't change. Our interpretation of God changes. We keep the Bible true to it's form because it's believed to be inspired by God and therefore the word of God. Your analogy would be more correct in that the Nation exists, but the laws governing it are subject to amendment.
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February 12, 2010 at 10:56 am
Here's an even more correct assessment:
"As technology and science increases and we learn more about the world around us, we need to backtrack and change our interpretations of a 3,000 year old book that we live by to fit our belief system."
The catholic church is pretty good at this.
It gets to a point where the bible is allegorical at best, since modern society has a much stronger moral code and allows free thought to flourish for the most part.
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February 12, 2010 at 1:46 pm
(February 8, 2010 at 12:51 am)padraic Wrote: Christians claim The Bible is the inerrant word of God.The the degree of literalism depends on which flavour one chooses. Christian beliefs are based on a dogmatic canon which has not changed since the C4th CE
Incorrect. Some Christians consider the Bible as potentially errant. Some Catholics cite the council agreeing the current format and are open to other ideas about what should and should not be included.
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February 12, 2010 at 1:54 pm
As we gain more knowledge about the world around us; through psychology, definitions, scientific discoveries, philosophy,etc , we need to reassess our interpreations of the scripture using deductive reasoning.
That's how I would have phrsed it, to each their own 
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February 12, 2010 at 3:58 pm
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(February 12, 2010 at 1:54 pm)tackattack Wrote: As we gain more knowledge about the world around us; through psychology, definitions, scientific discoveries, philosophy,etc , we need to reassess our interpreations of the scripture using deductive reasoning.
That's how I would have phrsed it, to each their own
And when science outright disproves a claim made in the bible, we say it was a metaphor to save face.
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February 12, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Perverters of truth claim the bible makes scientific statements and then knocks them down like the big strawmen they are.
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February 12, 2010 at 7:32 pm
(February 12, 2010 at 5:06 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Perverters of truth claim the bible makes scientific statements and then knocks them down like the big strawmen they are.
Should the bible be taken literally or metaphorically?
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