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I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 25, 2024 at 2:27 pm
I hate it when people quote from the Bible. It's like quoting Harry Potter. Doesn't substantiate anything real that matters.
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 25, 2024 at 2:32 pm
It's occasionally useful to shut up theists but besides that I agree - bible is just irrelevant.
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 25, 2024 at 2:52 pm
It’s about as useful to quote as, say, the complete works of Shakespeare. That said, I can’t expect anyone to treat the Bard’s word as absolute truth, either.
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 25, 2024 at 3:16 pm
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(July 25, 2024 at 2:27 pm)Disagreeable Wrote: I hate it when people quote from the Bible. It's like quoting Harry Potter. Doesn't substantiate anything real that matters.
There are actually some good bits here and there among the stupid:
‘Let there be an equality among you. Give to those in need.’
‘Be merciful, kind, humble, loving, and forgiving to one another.’
‘Be gentle and patient with all others.’
‘Do not oppress the poor, whether the be slaves, neighbours or strangers.’
‘Let us therefore follow after things which make peace.’
‘Do good unto all men.’
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 25, 2024 at 10:04 pm
The bears eating children is nice. And women need to know their place and keep quite is another. But the best is suicidal pigs.
Maybe I've been reading it wrong and it's really an absurd dark comedy.
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 26, 2024 at 8:09 am
The buybull, like any work of fiction has bit of truth it builds around. I'm sure some of those stories actually happened, just not to the extent they are exaggerated to. Like dad's fish story, yeah, dad caught a fish, it just wasn't Moby Dick. Those who generally quote from the buybull, typically do not understand how words work. The buybull is literal when in coincides with whatever short sighted, bigoted, intolerant, laughable nonsense they are pushing, however, when it diverges and oppose anything in their silly little repertoire, it is metaphorical and should not be valued as godiboi's unvarnished gospel.
Contradiction, is also lost on these complete and utter fools, their tiny, little 0.25 watt bulb either completely shuts down and they avoid all other interaction, or they regurgitate spiteful, vindictive, hate infused quotes from the guud buuk, because again, words are hard, especially when you have use them on the fly.
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RE: I hate it when people quote from the Bible
July 26, 2024 at 1:59 pm
I usually quote
The Silmarillion back at them.
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