[quote=SK in CV][quote=zk][quote=FlyerInHi] Being tough and strong and wanting to respond to everything with shock and awe, overwhelmming pushnishment is nothing to be proud of. That also flies in the face of the teachings of the Bible.
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Have you read the old testament?[/quote]
I have.
Justice, justice, thou shall pursue.[/quote]
Exactly. An eye for an eye. So to say that responding to violence with violence flies in the face of the teachings of the bible doesn’t really…fly.
Of course, the bible apparently being subject to interpretation as it is, one can interpret the bible to mean almost anything they want. Especially considering all the contradictory things the bible says.
I certainly don’t want to jack my own thread, but I’ve never gotten a decent answer to these questions:
If your holy book is strictly the word of god and not subject to interpretation, how do you explain/justify the horrors in that book?
If your holy book is subject to interpretation, then aren’t those interpretations subject to the folly of man, and therefore not true divine guidance?
If your holy book is not true divine guidance, then what’s the point of it?
What is your favorite color?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Anyway, fortunately, the bible is not the law of the land. Let’s keep it that way.
