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DrZoidberg said:
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Except when it regularly does, then the No True Scotsman is employed over and over….
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I'm very grateful Christians continually fail at stoning people for working on Sundays. Imaging the utter mayhem, every damn week. I'm very happy rape is illegal. So, well done failing to apply that Biblical principle.

For everything that's good advice I can find two that is awful advice. That's just doing a quick scan. Wilson must have some sort of special Bible nobody else has read?
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No, he's reading the same Bible, it's just that God has spoken to him and let him know which passages were meant ironically.
 
DrZoidberg said:
I'm very grateful Christians continually fail at stoning people for working on Sundays.
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They try to make up for it, though, going out on Sunday for a good restaurant meal, then stiffing the waitress for having the temerity to work on the Sabbath.
Same hypocrisy, just fewer bruises.
 
Have you talked to your fruit salad today?

wilson said:
blastula said:
wilson doesn't believe in words he doesn't understand.
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If you are referring to the word "theology," I reject it because it deals primarily with religious traditions.
Those are unreliable and mostly based on falsehood.
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Funny things happen when a person chooses to use words in ways that other people don't perceive them. Sure one can babel any way they want, after all it is a free country. However, if one desires to convey ideas, one needs to explain themselves more thoroughly, when they choose to make the word "moon" mean a piece of tropical fruit that most everyone else calls a pineapple. So when a person plays verbal world salad, people start thinking that person is either strange, cagey, or batty among other thoughts. Words like 'theology", "arrangement", and others have fairly well accepted definitions and usages. And many words have several possible usages, so if the sentence itself doesn't make which usage is intended clear, clarification is often useful.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theology
1: the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially : the study of God and of God's relation to the world
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https://bible.org/article/what-theology
Most simply put, theology is the study of God. It comes from the word theos which is Greek for “God,” and -ology which is from the Greek word logos meaning “word.” Most literally then the word theology means “words about God” or “the study of God.” If one were to use the term generically, it functions much like “philosophy” or “worldview.”
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DrZoidberg said:
I'm very grateful Christians continually fail at stoning people for working on Sundays. Imaging the utter mayhem, every damn week. I'm very happy rape is illegal. So, well done failing to apply that Biblical principle.
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Christians haven't needed to fail in this regard being that "stoning and rape" is not part of the Christian faith as you may know.
 
Learner said:
DrZoidberg said:
I'm very grateful Christians continually fail at stoning people for working on Sundays. Imaging the utter mayhem, every damn week. I'm very happy rape is illegal. So, well done failing to apply that Biblical principle.
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Christians haven't needed to fail in this regard being that "stoning and rape" is not part of the Christian faith as you may know.
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Ha ha. Always funny when an atheist knows the Bible better than a Christian
 
Am I supposed to stone people who work on Sunday?
I never heard ANY Christian tell me that.
 
Lion IRC said:
DrZoidberg said:
Ha ha. Always funny when an atheist knows pretends to know the Bible better than a Christian
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Fixed.
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Exodus 31:15

Remarkable how an omnipotent being is somehow unable to murder innocent people on his own. And needs help by random people with stones.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Makes perfect sense that a rape victim should be forced to share the rest of her life together with her rapist. Ya, know, get back on that horse. Face your fears.

We also know the context. No fundie Christian can squirm out of this with any credibility intact.
 
DrZoidberg said:
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Exodus 31:15

Remarkable how an omnipotent being is somehow unable to murder innocent people on his own. And needs help by random people with stones.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Makes perfect sense that a rape victim should be forced to share the rest of her life together with her rapist. Ya, know, get back on that horse. Face your fears.

We also know the context. No fundie Christian can squirm out of this with any credibility intact.
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I'm sorry, but what am I supposed to 'squirm' out of?
I thought you were going to show something from the bible of which Christians weren't aware.
I know both those verses.

Theres no mention of "stones" in Exodus 31:15

It's like youre showing an adult a rule which applies to children and wondering why the adult doesn't equally obey that rule.
 
Just in case Indian people feel left out . We'd have to include , the hindu version of floods and Manu the Hindu Noah or Nu'u (I think spelt right) and Hawaiian flood story etc. The similar theme seems pretty interesting although admittedly I need a bit of brushing up here.
 
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DrZoidberg said:
funinspace said:
Except when it regularly does, then the No True Scotsman is employed over and over….
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I'm very grateful Christians continually fail at stoning people for working on Sundays. Imaging the utter mayhem, every damn week. I'm very happy rape is illegal. So, well done failing to apply that Biblical principle.

For everything that's good advice I can find two that is awful advice. That's just doing a quick scan. Wilson must have some sort of special Bible nobody else has read?
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What you are describing is the utter FAILURE to apply biblical principles.
 
Learner said:
I see it as; "You have nothing on Jesus or his teachings" in a "Christian" credible way.
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I have no idea what this even means. Either the Bible is your ethical guide, in which case you are a monster. Or you use your own judgement, pick and chose what to follow, which might make you a good person, but makes the Bible is irrelevant.

Those are the only two choices. I view all fundamentalist Christian as evil. The Bible, as a whole, is an evil text. The God of it is clearly evil. The fact that some of the advice is solid advice, can't make up for the immoral stuff. In a court of law, nobody cares if the murderer also is a nice guy. They judge him on the murder alone.
 
Lion IRC said:
DrZoidberg said:
Exodus 31:15

Remarkable how an omnipotent being is somehow unable to murder innocent people on his own. And needs help by random people with stones.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Makes perfect sense that a rape victim should be forced to share the rest of her life together with her rapist. Ya, know, get back on that horse. Face your fears.

We also know the context. No fundie Christian can squirm out of this with any credibility intact.
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I'm sorry, but what am I supposed to 'squirm' out of?
I thought you were going to show something from the bible of which Christians weren't aware.
I know both those verses.

Theres no mention of "stones" in Exodus 31:15

It's like youre showing an adult a rule which applies to children and wondering why the adult doesn't equally obey that rule.
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I think it's great that modern Christians ignore the evil in the Bible. Please, keep it up. I wasn't aware "put to death" can be interpreted so many ways. Perhaps only put to death a little bit? Perhaps it means they will be forced to sit in the comfy chair?

There's a context. We know what types of punishments were given in the ancient world. So we know what is referred to is stoning. There's a hell of a lot in the Bible that the authors just assume the readers are familiar with. But which modern humans aren't. That's another thing that fascinates me about modern Christians. They don't seem to be all that interested in the Bible and the world that spawned it. It's all just exercises in creative ways to interpret it, without context. Isn't it interesting what the Biblical authors meant?
 
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