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In reply to the discussion: What are "Biblical Values"? [View all]Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)90. You aren't serious, right?
79. Well, anyone who murdered other people was not following Jesus
There is so much fallaciously wrong with that sentence I don't know where to start. Oh, yeah, I do: No True Scotsman. Plenty else wrong, though.
And just as there isn't a tenent of materialism that prohibits mass murder there isn't one that tells them to do it, either. Which cuts against your point. I really hope you don't consider yourself good at argument.
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I don't recall stoning for violating the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was Saturday then.
merrily
Nov 2012
#5
Sorry, but I am still not seeing stoning or Sunday. Interesting translation, too.
merrily
Nov 2012
#24
The Bible says you are NOT allowed to ignore what you wish to ignore in the Bible.
Speck Tater
Nov 2012
#11
So since the ten commandments are Old Testament, we can ignore them. Right? nt
Speck Tater
Nov 2012
#47
That stance is exactly how the fundamentalist view Biblical innerency.
Thats my opinion
Nov 2012
#38
But a month before the election Willard sat at Billy's feet and got his blessing. nt
Thats my opinion
Nov 2012
#21
Yes, he's made it perfectly clear that he views religion to be the one thing keeping us civilized.
trotsky
Nov 2012
#27
Sorry, but I've quit trying to dialogue with that sort of vituperation.
Thats my opinion
Nov 2012
#40
This is how he continues to convince himself that he is superior to the rest of us.
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#60
The Golden Rule is basic to many religions and also explicit in the various Humanist Manifestos,
jody
Nov 2012
#23
If Leviticus cannot be read literally, then none of the bible can be read literally.
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#54
You have demonstrated your passive-aggresiveness well, but failed to show bigotry.
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#116
Thank you for acknowledging that I am not a bigot. That shows some progress on your part.
Starboard Tack
Nov 2012
#134
Your passive-aggressiveness is a turn off. Learn how to control that, then we can talk
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#148
What buddy? The guy whose name I couldn't remember and had never seen before.
Starboard Tack
Nov 2012
#197
Bigots usually call everyone else bigots, even while they spew their bigotry.
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#178
Whoa, whoa, "Treat the native population Justly?"...excuse me? God's actions say otherwise...
Moonwalk
Nov 2012
#65
LOL! Dude, I'm an Atheist! I don't believe there is a god to say ANYTHING...BUT....
Moonwalk
Nov 2012
#99
You guys always seem to think it makes you daring and grown up to say "fuck"
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#115
I could make a strong argument that completely ignoring the substance of a person's argument
Hissyspit
Nov 2012
#122
"Remind me of why I should take you people to be liberals or lefties?" What. The. Fuck?
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#57
I've seldom encountered an atheist who really knew what a non sequitur was
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#104
I started out by correcting your bigoted accusation that I was a Christian
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#130
I'm in the process of writing a long piece about St. Carl Sagan and the industry peddling him
AlbertCat
Nov 2012
#189
I wrote about that quote earlier this year on my blog and in blog comments before then
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#118
Is that what Jesus told you to do? Fight fire with fire, attack with impunity...
trotsky
Nov 2012
#140
Telling the truth to refute fiction isn't forbidden by any religion I know of
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#141
I'm sorry you continue to feel the need to personally insult me and my intelligence.
trotsky
Nov 2012
#145
For your information the CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS SUPERSEDE
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#150
The new atheists ignore facts like that to make believe they are the most discriminated against
AlbertCat
Nov 2012
#190
What matters is that they believed that what they were doing was science
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#84
Jesus was absolutely clear, you were to treat people as you would be treated,
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#92
If a materialist acts morally they are not doing it from the basis of materialism
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#96
Immoral acts are all based in selfishness, morality is effectively resisting selfishness
Anthony McCarthy
Nov 2012
#103
Given your inability to refrain from personal attacks, I have decided to place you on Ignore.
trotsky
Nov 2012
#158
How clueless do you have to be to think Stalin and Mao were, in the smallest way, motivated by "scie
AlbertCat
Nov 2012
#191
As A believing Christian I think that Biblical Values mean to live your life with integrity.
hrmjustin
Nov 2012
#123
Biblical morality: It's okay to commit genocide, to murder two year-old children clutching ...
GodlessBiker
Nov 2012
#126
WRONG AGAIN, TMO!!!! "Biblical values" has not been used as code for the non-religious.
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#183
Billy Graham is a respected evangelical who has helped millions of people turn their lives around.
AlbertCat
Nov 2012
#186
"It's like you didn't even read a word I said" - AC, that is what is so frustrating!
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#211
Give us a defintition of fundamentalism--not religious but just generic.
Thats my opinion
Nov 2012
#215
Someone who doesn't buy into irrational theological doctrines is not a fundamentalist.
Arugula Latte
Nov 2012
#216