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RE: The Tower of Babel
November 17, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Exactly, murder is irrelevant, what matters is "jesus". 
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RE: The Tower of Babel
November 17, 2015 at 2:28 pm
Some day, in your wildest dreams, drippy, you might be able to show that your god exists to do anything. Right now you are just being your usually annoying and silly self.
Fuck off. And take your god with you.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
November 20, 2015 at 3:22 am
(November 17, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Drich Wrote: (November 17, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Obscured image of a fence.  The point being, no matter how you want to describe the pic, we both acknowledge that it is there. your preference for the use of the word sin is irrelevant. At some point in the catalog of all human behavior we will agree certain acts to be the work of an evil mind and heart, even if we can not agree on the terminology used to describe it. Bottom line will be that some humans will ultimately turn on others and do pretty sick things, and justify them with a different 'morlaity' than what you hold to. You can use whatever words you want to to describe this behavior, but again we both (as with the apple pic have to acknowledge it is there.
God has done the same exact thing with sin. He has found a common thread in our behavior that we all share and can do nothing about. this is sin. He sent his son to die for our sin so that we did not have to be held accountable to it. Those who embraced/loved their sin more than the one who died to provide a way out of sin, have been identified as evil. Evil determines it's own right and wrong. 'Evil' makes the sinner's sin 'moral' to the sinner. Just like the Paris attackers were justified by their morality, and they (the attackers) see what they did as being justified, those who do not repent of their sin also moralize their sin and fall into the same evil.
the only difference here is God selects the 'picture' of sin and evil. In the Bible sin is simply the act of refusing to do as you're told to do and not believing everything you've been told without exception. The main characters committed all kinds of heinous and immoral acts but they were not considered to be sinful because the God character told them to do those things. Some characters got into trouble when they used their own judgment and decided that those acts were wrong and refused to do them.
In today's society a person can't sin in a biblical sense because the God character doesn't exist and therefore can't tell you to do anything. And you can't cherry pick the Bible because it has examples of where people were blessed for committing immoral acts and atrocities.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
November 30, 2015 at 2:53 pm
The Tower of Babel narrative is the Yahwistic (in reference to the Yahwist document posited by the Documentary Hypothesis) tradition's explanation of why different languages exist. The Priestly tradition, on the other hand, explains this during the Table of Nations narrative, with the line 'These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.' (Genesis 10:31).
It's also the Yahwistic tradition that talks about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Yahweh's fear that if they eat from the Tree of Life, they will become like on of the gods.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 4:53 pm
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 4:59 pm
So what were the second and third Giza Pyramids for? The ones without internal chambers? Or didn't these Russian hacks think of that?
Zahi Hawass had a great word for people like that: Pyramidiots.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 5:05 pm
(August 5, 2018 at 4:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So what were the second and third Giza Pyramids for? The ones without internal chambers? Or didn't these Russian hacks think of that?
Zahi Hawass had a great word for people like that: Pyramidiots.
Those pyramids were built much later...
Also you apparently didn't see that I posted from two completely different sources.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 5:11 pm
No, they weren't.
And you apparently didn't hear the bimbo say "that assumptions had to be made...."
Pay attention, Huggy. Or go back to reading your stupid fucking bible.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 5:36 pm
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 5, 2018 at 5:41 pm
(August 5, 2018 at 4:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So what were the second and third Giza Pyramids for? The ones without internal chambers? Or didn't these Russian hacks think of that?
Spare batteries.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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