A good book.

Post #155,326 by mmoffitt 5/15/04 4:36:12 PM Reply	A good book. Leviticus 25 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. [link\|http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=Lev+25%3A44-46&version=KJV\|http://biblegateway....44-46&version=KJV] I take it the "unchosen" are okay to own. Deuteronomy 20 1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ... 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. ... 13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. [link\|http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=KJV&passage=Deuteronomy+20&x=11&y=11\|http://biblegateway....nomy+20&x=11&y=11] So, God wants you to kill people and take everything they have - including their women and this is a good thing *if you believe in this religion.* You know, if I had to state my position on religion over again, I think I'd have just quoted some of these vaunted "holy books". bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #155,329 by Andrew Grygus 5/15/04 5:45:58 PM Reply	The really funny thing . . . . . is the Christians are all among the people who are supposed to be smitten and owned and robed from - the permission to smite, own and rob is given to Jews, and they aren't Christians. Pressed, of course, the Christians mumble something about a "New Covenent" that transfers these permissions from Jews (now OK to smite, own and rob from) to Christians. I'll need to see a notorized copy of that "New Covenent" with God's signiture (flaming, of course) on it before I'm going to believe that tall tale. Even SCO has a more believable story. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #155,330 by boxley 5/15/04 5:50:17 PM Reply	I think I can explain there was a sword in a broad's hand rising from a lake, no thats a different story. thanx, bill Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #155,331 by boxley 5/15/04 5:52:33 PM 5/15/04 5:56:11 PM Reply	whats yer point? dang crap touch pad, now if you and I cannot agree on a clearly worded american english second ammendment to the constitution, how can you expect to understand 5 books of the old testament that the explaination of those short five books is 18 volumes of several thousand pages each written upside down and sideways in hebrew? (Talmud) thanx, bill Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] Edited by boxley May 15, 2004, 05:56:11 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #155,333 by Andrew Grygus 5/15/04 6:50:04 PM Reply	And political statements are still like that to this day. Five slim clearly stated volumes are followed by 18 multi-thousand page tomes of scholarly back pedaling, "clarification" and spin doctoring. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #155,378 by Ashton 5/16/04 7:33:27 AM Reply	It's worse than that The common denominator amongst the fundies of all banners is an utter inability to discriminate between events and metaphor, combined with an abject historical ignorance of the role of myth in the human jelloware. From such pervasive and ultimately fatal ignorance of even the uses of human language, + nukes now and forever.. that 'forever' just may not be a lengthy one. Or as Bertie Russell opined way back in '62, in the delightful little cartoon-illustrated tract I am pleased to possess - Since the beginning Man has never refrained From any folly Of which he is capable RIP - Monumental Assholes

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