First off I think it's an absolute joke. The bible is in no way a definitive list of morals that applies to today's society. It holds no place in an argument over controversial social issues such as abortion or gay marriage. If anything the bible values the life of a fetus much lower than that of a living person.

Exodus 21:22-25: "And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no [further] injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any [further] injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."

By the logic that Pro-Lifers and Anti-Gay marriage advocates use, we should put all women in their place. They need to be subservient to their men, and must not say a word in church. We should also bomb Pork Processing plants, and delis. I propose that we stand in the deli section of the supermarket and harass every person who buys pork, because thats the Christian thing to do. In the old testament pork is forbidden to be eaten. This one law is often ignored by bible thumping Christians. This doesn't keep them from selectively reading the rest of the book to further "assumed" Christian morals.

Lets get the fundamentalism rolling. Lets go and burn some J.C. Penney's to the ground for selling wool cotton blends.

Deuteronomy 22:11

'You must not wear clothing woven part of wool, part of linen.'

hear hear

we've had many discussions of morality in the bible and none of the bible thumpers can come up with an excuse =/

look at the moral zeitgeist, it was OK to call people niggers on TV some 40-50 years ago.. not so anymore.

I think we should make some evangelical flyers about how Jesus despises you eating pork. Then we should preach the good word at the deli.

I would congratulate you on some original points.

They seem ,however, to be lacking originality.

And in Acts 10 Peter has a vision where impure creatures (Ther are a lot more besides pigs) parade in front of him, and he is commanded to kill and eat the impure animals. He refuses to kill or eat them because they are pure. He is rebuked being told, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean." To be fair this part is more to grant acceptance on the Gentiles, but I guess we can use it here.

I'm sure you know the comeback to the eye for an eye line.

And while I can't find it now, there is a part where Jesus says that it is not neccesary to restrict oneself from things unless they strengthen faith, thus you could argue that it is not neccesary to restrict the kind of clothing you wear if it has no effect on your faith. I don't think that this would be too bad, it doesn't contradict any of the ten commandments, nor Jesus's own commandments.

Still, I'm sure you're going to accuse me of cherrypicking. Well. I am.

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The bible has too many examples of hatred from the OT god to be a laudable god.

quote:Originally posted by inuteroteen:

I think we should make some evangelical flyers about how Jesus despises you eating pork. Then we should preach the good word at the deli.

...WTF. Do you have ANY idea what you're talking about?

quote:Originally posted by Rizzo in a box:

...WTF. Do you have ANY idea what you're talking about?

Its a parody of the shit evangelicals do at abortion clinics, and any place where there are an abundance of gays.

I see alot of people posting about things they know absolutely nothing about then saying "LAWL I TOTALLIE PWNT THOS KRISTIANZ" and then the athiest dick sucking begins and everyone believes he has a valid point but, I have news for you.....THEY DONT.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

I see alot of people posting about things they know absolutely nothing about

Kinda like This (http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum15/HTML/006762.html)?

Yeah, I feel you Sammy. I know right where you're coming from.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

I see alot of people posting about things they know absolutely nothing about then saying "LAWL I TOTALLIE PWNT THOS KRISTIANZ" and then the athiest dick sucking begins and everyone believes he has a valid point but, I have news for you.....THEY DONT.

So? Educate us. Why aren't these points valid? Are you going to use the "OT doesn't apply despite the fact that Jesus says it does"? You aren't debating, you aren't even commenting.

If we're sucking each other's dicks, then you're certainly masturbating.

On an actual note, the Old Testament's a pretty shaky source of morals, but I admit that I do enjoy the New Testament's morals. Jesus had some good ideas, but I think they were politicized by the founding fathers of ya olde church.

Frankly, who doesn't wish we could live in a world of neighbourly love and peace?

quote:Originally posted by MolecularMollusc:



If we're sucking each other's dicks, then you're certainly masturbating.





lol

quote:Originally posted by AngryFemme:

Kinda like This (http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum15/HTML/006762.html)?

Yeah, I feel you Sammy. I know right where you're coming from.



What? Drawings of dragons? What the fuck does that prove?

Holy shit! I found this drawing of a dragon that was done this year! If a 5,000 year old drawing of dragon means dragons were around 5,000 years ago, then a preasent drawing of a dragon must mean there are dragons around now! Right?

http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/dragon1.jpg

We need religion for morals?

Read this! It provides more good morals then the bible.

http://tinyurl.com/2gcjqp

quote:By the logic that Pro-Lifers and Anti-Gay marriage advocates use, we should put all women in their place. They need to be subservient to their men, and must not say a word in church. We should also bomb Pork Processing plants, and delis.

I propose that you have it backwards. I believe we should pork women and bomb pro-lifers and anti-gay-marriage advocates.

quote:Originally posted by JoePedo:

I propose that you have it backwards. I believe we should pork women and bomb pro-lifers and anti-gay-marriage advocates.

I second that ....

i also never understood how people against abortion decided to call themselves "Pro-lifers" its such a weighted term =/

quote:Originally posted by MolecularMollusc:

So? Educate us. Why aren't these points valid? Are you going to use the "OT doesn't apply despite the fact that Jesus says it does"? You aren't debating, you aren't even commenting.

If we're sucking each other's dicks, then you're certainly masturbating.

On an actual note, the Old Testament's a pretty shaky source of morals, but I admit that I do enjoy the New Testament's morals. Jesus had some good ideas, but I think they were politicized by the founding fathers of ya olde church.

Frankly, who doesn't wish we could live in a world of neighbourly love and peace?



Yes im saying you have invalid points because you need to use the rest of Bible as context and know what they ACTUALLY meant when they said it because our translation is much different from people's long ago translation.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

Yes im saying you have invalid points because you need to use the rest of Bible as context and know what they ACTUALLY meant when they said it because our translation is much different from people's long ago translation.

And I'm sure you have the true objective interpretation, hmm?

quote:Originally posted by Blades of Hate:

I second that ....

i also never understood how people against abortion decided to call themselves "Pro-lifers" its such a weighted term =/

Exactly

I love it when some "pro-life" people support the death penalty. It's so hypocritical it bends my mind

quote:Originally posted by Pilsu:

I love it when some "pro-life" people support the death penalty. It's so hypocritical it bends my mind

If their argument is that all life is sacred and only God can choose when it ends, then yes, I agree with you, it is mind bending. If, however, their view is that you cannot kill a child because it is an innocent, but you can kill a criminal because it is just the opposite, then I think being anti-abortion and pro-death-penalty is non-contradictory (however, it should lead to an infinity regress of each executioner being executed).



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quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

And I'm sure you have the true objective interpretation, hmm?

What makes you think i dont.......

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

What makes you think i dont.......

I've not seen any evidence that you do and alsmot everyone thinks they have the correct interpretation, it's part of the arrogance of being a Christian.

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quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

I've not seen any evidence that you do and alsmot everyone thinks they have the correct interpretation, it's part of the arrogance of being a Christian.



But the people who claim they have the right interpretation dont know the reaserch,I do i know every form of the Bible and where it came from,how it originated and why MINE is the correct one.(KJV)

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

But the people who claim they have the right interpretation dont know the reaserch,I do i know every form of the Bible and where it came from,how it originated and why MINE is the correct one.(KJV)

How arrogant of you to assume that of everyone else and of yourself. I don't understand why all of your posts have been void of content if you're so knowledgeable.

quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

How arrogant of you to assume that of everyone else and of yourself. I don't understand why all of your posts have been void of content if you're so knowledgeable.



I heard all of this information a long time ago but i remembered(for lack of better term) the meat of what the man said he reaserched it for years i think he knows what he is talking about.I would give you the name of the person but it would do no good.I dont understand why you assume i have no proof of my point.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

I heard all of this information a long time ago but i remembered(for lack of better term) the meat of what the man said he reaserched it for years i think he knows what he is talking about.I would give you the name of the person but it would do no good.I dont understand why you assume i have no proof of my point.

Because you've not presented any yet, you've only dropped the name(not even that) of some man you THINK knows what he is talking about and have obviously put a lot of trust in this guy's book which you can only remember the "meat" of. That doesn't exactly sound like "research" to me. Not to mention that nearly all of your posts have been void of any real content.



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quote:Originally posted by Hare_Geist:

Because you've not presented any yet, you've only dropped the name(not even that) of some man you THINK knows what he is talking about and have obviously put a lot of trust in this guy's book which you can only remember the "meat" of. That doesn't exactly sound like "research" to me. Not to mention that nearly all of your posts have been void of any real content.



This is where i stop talking to you because to reply to this i would have to say something i just said because you apparently didnt listen or even try to see this from a different viewpoint.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

This is where i stop talking to you because to reply to this i would have to say something i just said because you apparently didnt listen or even try to see this from a different viewpoint.

Uh-huh, you do that since giving me his name would "do no good".

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

This is where i stop talking to you because to reply to this i would have to say something i just said because you apparently didnt listen or even try to see this from a different viewpoint.

You never present real arguments or evidence. You just spam links and copy and paste shit you didn't read while spewing complete horseshit without having any thread of evidence, logic and reason to back any of it up. Your viewpoint is "I am right and everyone else is wrong. Evidence and reason are for pussies, shit i just made up is as good as fact". No shit nobody wants to look at anything from your viewpoint

The whole point of the bible is the message, not the story. I'd say "love thy neighbor" and "thou shall not kill" can help today's society a lot.

quote:Originally posted by Jaguarstrike:

The whole point of the bible is the message, not the story. I'd say "love thy neighbor" and "thou shall not kill" can help today's society a lot.

The Golden Rule isn't a Christian invention. It's found in loads of religions and philosophies, a lot of which came prior to Christianity.

quote:Originally posted by SAMMY249:

This is where i stop talking to you because to reply to this i would have to say something i just said because you apparently didnt listen or even try to see this from a different viewpoint.

OMFG!

You're pathetic.