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[TexasProgresive]

Here's one of mine:

How good and how pleasant it is,
when brothers (and sisters) dwell together as one!

Psalm 133:1

[redwitch]

1. Blessed are the peacemakers ...

Someday I hope the Donald is stranded on a desert island with only his favorite book.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Probably my fault.

Ezekiel 23:20

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. The erotic poetry in the Song of Soloman are my favorites.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Ecclesiasties 12:1-7

1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

[saturnsring]

5. Matthew 6 5

1“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Prayer

5“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

[trotsky]

21. Definitely one of my favorites too.

The irony is lost on many.

[hrmjustin]

6. John 1:1-18.

[TexasProgresive]

7. In the Mass of my youth pre Vatican II that was read at the end of every Mass

It was called the Last Gospel.

[hrmjustin]

8. I have seen that b in my mother's old mass books.

[rug]

9. Acts 4:32-34

32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.

33 With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. Judges 19 "Behold, here is my daughter a maiden"

19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

That bible. So full of wisdom.

[mr blur]

11. Yes, that's certainly a memorable one with a message for all of us.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. It is an interesting moral lesson.

If the bad men want to rape your male guest, send them your women instead. I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for how that isn't totally fucked up. But it seems the only apologetic diversion here is to attempt to discuss biblical history, which is a subject generally at least as farcical as the bible itself.

[rug]

15. Looks like you don't know anything about the Battle of Gibeah.

Or the passage you quoted.

[cleanhippie]

22. No, Warren, you're obviously taking it out of context. God loves us, don't you know that?

And besides, there's this wiki page of some ancient biblical battle that explains it all.. It doesn't mean what it says, it means something else.

So there.

[Warren Stupidity]

23. I'm still puzzling over the morality of "take my virgin daughter and rape her to death".

It just seems like a lesson in brutal misogyny to me, but then again I think biblical history is 99% bullshit engaged in by religious zealots out to prove there really was a noah.

[rug]

13. What do you know about the Battle of Gibeah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gibeah

[pokerfan]

16. Yikes!

[trotsky]

19. Oh, you're just cherry-picking!

Which we know is bad, except when it's good because you are cherry-picking good stuff.

[LeftishBrit]

12. Though I'm an atheist, there are many verses that I like

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.... Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me'. (Matthew, 25)



'And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.' (Leviticus)


And from the Apocrypha:


'My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long... Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man. Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none occasion to curse thee: For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer shall be heard of him that made him...
Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment....Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.' (Ecclesiasticus, 4).

[pokerfan]

18. Oh, God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son....”

( Genesis 22)

But Dylan made it cool....

[edhopper]

20. This one

shows this god to be neither all loving or fair minded.

"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"

Punish someone for the sins of their great grand-parents, nice.

[AtheistCrusader]

24. Finrod and Barahir by far.

Loyalty and honor in the face of certain death. Like no kidding certain. Wasn't even a question. He knew he'd die. That's love, right there.


But Beren and Luthien is pretty ok too.

[LostOne4Ever]

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Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

[Rainforestgoddess]

29. I must not fear

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

[LostOne4Ever]

25. I will play nice and say Matthew 7

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[JoePhilly]

26. That thread got UNLOCKED!!!

[mr blur]

30. Live a good life.

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”