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Originally Posted by RoryReloaded
I find the bible a tool to understand values
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Well, you've got this much right.
Just to reinforce this belief in you, I have contributed a few examples of moral teachings that we would not have intuited on our own. If it weren't for the Bible, who would have guessed that dashing little children against stones would make one happy?
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Psalm 137
1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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Who would have known that it is not only alright to own another human being, but that said ownership justifies causing them a slow death?
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Exodus 21:20-21
King James Version (KJV)
20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
21Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
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Our modern cultural beliefs are proven wrong again by the following passage, which explains the punishment for rape is to buy the victim for 50 shekels and marry her.
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Deuteronomy 22:28-29
King James Version (KJV)
28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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There are so many more examples of ways that the Bible teaches us that our moral intuitions are mistaken.
You are right, friend!
