Mathew 5:17. I guess he skipped that chapter (Reply #107)

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107. Mathew 5:17. I guess he skipped that chapter

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Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’ [View all]	Galraedia	Oct 2012	OP
Why do these idiots put Paul on the same level as Jesus	LynneSin	Oct 2012	#1
I'd say something about the prophecies, but I don't think I should.	sakabatou	Oct 2012	#3
Offs.	GeorgeGist	Oct 2012	#7
Of what resurrection	carla	Oct 2012	#18
Yes there is	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#78
Here we go again, with the supposed third party confirmations that Jesus really existed.	stopbush	Oct 2012	#103
Even the	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#106
You are right, a dude named Jesus did live, but he was just an average carpenter	snooper2	Oct 2012	#116
Jesus is just like Mithra, Apollo, Osiris, etc.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#130
I suggest you research	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#154
You might want to check some other resources,	chervilant	Oct 2012	#135
Yes.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#147
Somehow,	chervilant	Oct 2012	#150
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#19
Nonsense. There's no proof that Paul actually existed. If you have such proof, produce it.	stopbush	Oct 2012	#51
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#61
Paul's like the so-called fifth Beatle...	WCGreen	Oct 2012	#77
So...Paul is the Pete Best of Christianity?	Ken Burch	Oct 2012	#176
See the Jefferson Bible	genxlib	Oct 2012	#26
If for those who don't believe in Jesus, the guy was a pretty admirable person	LynneSin	Oct 2012	#28
Jesus admirable? Really?	stopbush	Oct 2012	#54
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#62
Wow	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#82
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#89
Well Duh	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#94
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#96
Well	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#99
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#100
If you say so,	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#101
Did he really?	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#81
He was testing her?	stopbush	Oct 2012	#152
"What an asshole."	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#153
Oh, I've read the Gospels, and Jesus was a MAJOR asshole.	stopbush	Oct 2012	#157
Not many human beings	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#159
I'm not mad at anyone, especially a fiction like Jesus.	stopbush	Oct 2012	#160
I can't seem to think	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#161
Maybe you value life a little more if you know you're mortal.	Neoma	Oct 2012	#56
Yes, the Founders' ideas are unknown to most Americans. The GOPTeaParty rewrote history.	freshwest	Oct 2012	#60
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#64
I have a similar item today	Trailrider1951	Oct 2012	#75
I have a red letter bible (KJV), and those parts are the only ones I have	kestrel91316	Oct 2012	#87
That was what I did as I got older. Agree completely.	freshwest	Oct 2012	#148
I'd like to put in a pitch for the Book of Job, which is great in a black-humor	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#163
Jesus and Paul - both make-believe personages.	stopbush	Oct 2012	#50
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#65
Posting from CARM	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#83
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#91
I didn't	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#95
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#97
Your argument	CthulhusEvilCousin	Oct 2012	#98
.	Bandit	Oct 2012	#57
Paul told them who they could hate	Warpy	Oct 2012	#80
Paul attacking Women and Gay men?	happyslug	Oct 2012	#125
Because they worship evil and Jesus doesn't qualify, but Paul most certainly does.	Vidar	Oct 2012	#84
What's funny about Paul is that most of "his" fundamentalist writings weren't written by him.	antigone382	Oct 2012	#88
Paul gets a bad rap ...	kwassa	Oct 2012	#120
When people start quoting Paul's misogynistic messages, I	efhmc	Oct 2012	#115
okay	Bucky	Oct 2012	#187
They like Paul because he was a cranky bald dude who hated sex and feared women.	Ken Burch	Oct 2012	#175
Told my paster that if Paul is in heaven it's not a place I want to be.	efhmc	Oct 2012	#188
Paul wrote the Epistles, converted the Gentiles, and is historically more significant than Jesus.	Bucky	Oct 2012	#186
Why am I surrounded by these people?	sinkingfeeling	Oct 2012	#2
It must be awful. Wait. I am too.	yardwork	Oct 2012	#52
rofl n/t	Megahurtz	Oct 2012	#179
Consider the source.	Behind the Aegis	Oct 2012	#4
And considering Jesus Did NOT condemn gays or abortion.	fasttense	Oct 2012	#35
therefore "IF being gay were so god-awful, why didn't Jesus or Paul condemn it"? nt	msongs	Oct 2012	#5
+1000 - great retort (n/t)	leftynyc	Oct 2012	#20
And if being rich was so god-awful why didn't Jesus condemn it...	LynneSin	Oct 2012	#29
You're reading my mind...	Jeff In Milwaukee	Oct 2012	#49
Er well um not everything they said was meant to be taking literally	4th law of robotics	Oct 2012	#143
Slavery is a blessing? Then I have an immediate job opening for them.	Lasher	Oct 2012	#6
Um, yes, Jesus did condemn it.	SunSeeker	Oct 2012	#8
Very nice take on that statement. Book and verse ?	yesphan	Oct 2012	#11
Matthew 25: 35-40	SunSeeker	Oct 2012	#15
And then thou saw mine pension fund, and thou fuckest me, Elder RobMe. n/t	jtuck004	Oct 2012	#21
Someone once said I was a 'Matthew 25' Christian when I qroted this	duhneece	Oct 2012	#30
Yes, nice. Thanks.	yesphan	Oct 2012	#44
reads like a bad play	snooper2	Oct 2012	#117
Matthew 25:45	SIDURI	Oct 2012	#17
Perhaps Jesus did condemn it,	yesphan	Oct 2012	#9
Am not a believer in the rapture, however, if there really is one I hope God takes	southernyankeebelle	Oct 2012	#10
Me, I want to come back as a flea so I can bite rich Republicans in the ass. I would like to	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#164
LOL, your funny. Not a bad idea	southernyankeebelle	Oct 2012	#169
Actually, you should consider...	3catwoman3	Oct 2012	#170
LOL. Well, sort of. (The (lapsed?) Buddhist in me recoils at the	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#171
I remember when H. W. denounced David Duke when he was the Republican nominee for LA governor.	Mike Daniels	Oct 2012	#12
Why are Arkansas Republicans such stupidest pieces of pig shit?	jsr	Oct 2012	#13
Their schools?	FiveGoodMen	Oct 2012	#31
If they approved it, why didn't they have slaves?	The Second Stone	Oct 2012	#14
Dear Second Stone:"Jesus was absolutely clear everyone was to be treated as a loved one"	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#58
This message was self-deleted by its author	AnotherMcIntosh	Oct 2012	#66
His instructions to me were specific	The Second Stone	Oct 2012	#70
Oh, so you're not going to hell like everybody else?	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#105
He communicates...	awoke_in_2003	Oct 2012	#118
Holy Toast!!	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#127
Supposedly Jesus gave the disciples bread...	awoke_in_2003	Oct 2012	#129
Holy Crap	King_Klonopin	Oct 2012	#112
Welcome to religion discussions on DU.	kwassa	Oct 2012	#123
"out of context" won't wash.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#126
Best post I've read and 100% accurate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Great Caesars Ghost	Oct 2012	#172
not sucha blessing if you are the slave.	olddad56	Oct 2012	#16
Part of this is our fault	Doctor_J	Oct 2012	#22
Agreed.	FiveGoodMen	Oct 2012	#33
When one attacks the Confederate Battle Flag, he is certainly denouncing	HereSince1628	Oct 2012	#23
IF slavery is so great then why aren't white people wanting to be slaves?	booley	Oct 2012	#24
It's funny, isn't it? That dissonance.	Scootaloo	Oct 2012	#41
As a Christian	thatwhichisnt	Oct 2012	#25
And to welcome the stranger, the immigrant	duhneece	Oct 2012	#32
see my post #58 above.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#67
I read it...	Vasmosn	Oct 2012	#90
So you can't see how hateful the alleged words of Jesus are?	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#108
Um, no...	Vasmosn	Oct 2012	#155
There is no proof of Jesus' existence outside the bible.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#156
Bat.	NOLALady	Oct 2012	#27
Yes, those xtians are.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#144
The Republicans are going nuts in trying out-crazy each other in Arkansas. From yesterday:	Whovian	Oct 2012	#34
Paul was as human as anyone here, so he said wrong things sometimes,	closeupready	Oct 2012	#36
Leaving us the problem of figuring out when he was right and when he was wrong.	FiveGoodMen	Oct 2012	#38
Yes, essentially.	closeupready	Oct 2012	#39
so many ways	barbtries	Oct 2012	#37
Because, Rep. Hubbard,	catrose	Oct 2012	#40
Exactly!	Vasmosn	Oct 2012	#92
Well sir Paul does the scripture our church is built on...	DaDeacon	Oct 2012	#42
State GOP pulls funds for now, but will start funneling money once the furor dies down.	bullwinkle428	Oct 2012	#43
Good question	Zambero	Oct 2012	#45
The Abrahamic religions are flawed and inconsistent & contradict themselves.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#145
They actually put Paul much higher. They won't admit this but a study	harun	Oct 2012	#46
Yeah - like homosexuality	lame54	Oct 2012	#47
Quoting himself at length, he digs himself deeper in his hole	muriel_volestrangler	Oct 2012	#48
It's not quite accurate to paint Africa of today the way he does either	treestar	Oct 2012	#59
Oh yes, that's an integral part of his racism	muriel_volestrangler	Oct 2012	#63
Good question.	NOLALady	Oct 2012	#132
he's seen too many of those african cartoons boiling the missionaries in the pot	newspeak	Oct 2012	#142
Interesting analogue (precedent to Thanksgiving): would the lives of native Americans	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#165
You know what Jesus REALLY didn't condemn? Abortion and gay marriage. (nt)	UrbScotty	Oct 2012	#53
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You ignorant Arkansas fuckwad.	Lint Head	Oct 2012	#55
You know, this is gooing TOO f@cking far....black folks chafed under the lash	Ecumenist	Oct 2012	#68
You don't need to	sulphurdunn	Oct 2012	#69
jesus did, indirectly	arely staircase	Oct 2012	#71
Slimy racist lying republican pig shit - Who could possibly disagree?	LaPera	Oct 2012	#72
Jesus Horatio Christ, what a dumb ass inbred, redneck fuckstick!!	Harry Monroe	Oct 2012	#73
Jewish law did not prohibit abortion either...nt	barnabas63	Oct 2012	#74
this man really wants his state prison slave labor chain gangs back..with him as the whip cracker	Sunlei	Oct 2012	#76
Hmmm, lets see, they condemned adultery, can I watch while you stone Gingrich	still_one	Oct 2012	#79
Very sad. nt.	OldDem2012	Oct 2012	#85
Good question. Because they were both just end-times cult leaders	enki23	Oct 2012	#86
They probably did until Rome rewrote Christianity in the mold of their slave state	Coyotl	Oct 2012	#93
The thing these worthless souls will say and do to attract racist vote.	Hoyt	Oct 2012	#102
Well	PD Turk	Oct 2012	#104
Mathew 5:17. I guess he skipped that chapter	demosincebirth	Oct 2012	#107
Then you've got the GOP in Arkansas saying that there should be a Death Penalty	blkmusclmachine	Oct 2012	#109
If slavery was so wonderful, why didn't you put your neck in the yoke?	SemperEadem	Oct 2012	#110
This guy is the pioneer. In four years, expect a pro-slavery plank in the Republican platform.	tclambert	Oct 2012	#111
+1	lunasun	Oct 2012	#114
At which point, I think we can realistically expect to see Abraham Lincoln	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#166
As an atheist . . .	caseymoz	Oct 2012	#113
The 'abolition' of slavery had a lot to do with things Biblical. Radical	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#167
Sorry, but no.	caseymoz	Oct 2012	#173
Saying that John Brown and the radical abolitionists 'reinterpreted' or 'misread' the	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#178
I'll repeat:	caseymoz	Oct 2012	#180
As I understand it, Brown found Biblical warrant for abolitionism in the	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#181
And that was all Brown's interpretation.	caseymoz	Oct 2012	#182
Oh, those crazy fundymentalpatients!	hifiguy	Oct 2012	#119
Fundamentalists can and will sink lower than their imagined Satan ever would.	FiveGoodMen	Oct 2012	#122
The slavery we had in the US was completely different than that of those days. For one thing back	jwirr	Oct 2012	#121
Ah, preaching hate in the name of Jesus	felix_numinous	Oct 2012	#124
Dante reserved the lowest circle of his Inferno to the hypocrites. That	coalition_unwilling	Oct 2012	#168
Soooooo . . . . would Mauch be cool with Jesus being the slave of Herrod?	no_hypocrisy	Oct 2012	#128
He's right about the bible.	JNelson6563	Oct 2012	#131
He's also wrong about the Bible -- he thinks it's a good book	FiveGoodMen	Oct 2012	#133
What medication is Mr. Hubbard taking presently?	mwooldri	Oct 2012	#134
Religion bashing is self-indulgent and counter-productive	Anthony McCarthy	Oct 2012	#136
Actually,	chervilant	Oct 2012	#138
Maybe Jesus and Paul were racists too?	wtmusic	Oct 2012	#137
sounds like he's using a pre-civil war argument	newspeak	Oct 2012	#139
Because then, shit bag, slavery was common place and acceptable...	and-justice-for-all	Oct 2012	#140
the Old Testament says to free your slaves every seven years.	yurbud	Oct 2012	#141
Because they were ignorant, superstitious goatherders, that's why.	Manifestor_of_Light	Oct 2012	#146
As many still are.	panzerfaust	Oct 2012	#158
Confederate philosophy, read the dreck (emboldening font mine) and weep:	freshwest	Oct 2012	#149
Hey, Hubbard, you moron: "do unto others as you would yourself".	bemildred	Oct 2012	#151
I guess this is final proof that the neanderthals did mate with real humans.	truthisfreedom	Oct 2012	#162
The right-wing extremists in this country couldn't be more obvious...	ChisolmTrailDem	Oct 2012	#174
actually, I was thinking the same thing	newspeak	Oct 2012	#184
It's possible there were originally condemnations of slavery in the Gospels	Ken Burch	Oct 2012	#177
This thread is making my headache worse.	redwitch	Oct 2012	#183
All the posts on whether Jesus was historical figure, myth, etc. --- YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT!	Bake	Oct 2012	#185

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