[Meek and Humble]

Re: Sometimes a good stoning is necessary

It's best to stay on the safe side. Being overly cautious of Satan lurking in your neighbors is always better than being under. Jesus will understand.

[Sara Klug]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

I first googled this post when I heard Prune Danish's 'handy colour chart' read aloud on a comedy podcast. I wrongly thought this list to be a joke as I believed that a modern, Western, 'civilised' society could not spawn such ignorance and hate.

I am a twenty year old girl from Australia and underwent thirteen years of catholic schooling so I am well aware of the bible and its teachings, and therefore also aware of people who manipulate its meaning through literal interpretation to foster their fear and hatred of this world and its many moral dilemmas. This website, and indeed faith itself, has no right to promote genocide and rape as Christian principles! Not to mention the 'obvious anomaly' of the six sins preceeding 'Thou shalt not kill' with sanctified killing.

Prune Danish is willing to accept any punishments mentioned in the bible as literal fact, and yet is happy to cut and change the order to suit his own interpretation. I wonder if you are all so trigger happy with homosexuals, who are not mentioned in the bible? The fact that there is a smilie next to where I am writing that depicts three muslims terrorists being blown up suggests to me that this site probably supports sensible, politically correct ideals. Or at least, a middle ages Christian view of sensible, politically correct ideals.

The people who follow the bible to the letter need to realise that it is a collection of stories, fables if you will, that teach us how to be good and loving members of mankind. Treat others as you would like to be treated is the only message worth quoting from the bible and it covers all situations. 'Let's kill and rape everyone who doesn't agree with us,' is not a mature, reasonable or even sane mantra.

Anyone else who also found this site because of RG's Guide to Law and Order, and is aghast that this is true, email me [email address deleted]

[Nobar King]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

She said 'trigger happy'! He, He!

[Rev Jeffrey Lebowski]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

I am a twenty year old girl from Australia and underwent thirteen years of catholic schooling

Sara,
Thanks for taking a time-out from attempting to jump the rabbit proof fence.
You aboriginal ideas are truly amusing to us here in the Western civilized society.
Does the rest of your tribe know you are on the internets?

Tell us about your 13 years of abuse at the hands of the Catholics in the Introduction Forum.
Many here at Landover have heard what the Mary-Worshipers do to young girls; especially those jack-booted Irish nuns!
Did they torture you poor abos too, was it because of your homersexuality (which I thought they encouraged)???

Wishing you the gifts of Western civilization,
Rev Jeffrey Lebowski
Sister Verna Too {she is playing Waltzing Matilda on here didjeridong }

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

[...]I am a twenty year old girl from Australia and underwent thirteen years of catholic schooling so I am well aware of the bible and its teachings, [...]

This makes no sense whatsoever, Catlix are well known for not reading the Bible, they read selected passages and put perverse meanings upon them. As if this were not bad enough they add bits to God's Word.

A lesson from History for you:
Archbishop Ussher called a meeting of the Irish bishops in his house in November of 1626, the result being the "Judgement of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of Ireland". This begins: "The religion of the papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical; their church in respect of both, apostatical; to give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion, and profess their faith and doctrine, is a grievous sin."

Now, how can you argue with that?

[TrapDoorGreen]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Thank god you people are a minority in the world.

[Wide-Open]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Thank god you people are a minority in the world.

Yeah. Bush. Palin. Minority. Watch this space.

Read any Pew reports lately?

Very soon my Friend, you will be the minority.

[TrapDoorGreen]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Yeah. Bush. Palin. Minority. Watch this space.

Read any Pew reports lately?

Very soon my Friend, you will be the minority.

Let me know when that happens 'my friend'.

[Wide-Open]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Let me know when that happens 'my friend'.

Would 2012 suit you?

[TrapDoorGreen]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Would 2012 suit you?

What happens in 2012?Is that when the genocide and raping starts?

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

I wrongly thought this list to be a joke as I believed that a modern, Western, 'civilised' society could not spawn such ignorance and hate.

Wrongly is right! This "ignorance and hate" come straight form the Bible!

...people who manipulate its meaning through literal interpretation...

Whoa there, Nelly. How does someone "manipulate" a text through "literal interpretation?" Seriously, think about what you just said for just ONE second.

This website, and indeed faith itself, has no right to promote genocide and rape as Christian principles!

But they are. What don't you understand about the hundreds fo examples of it in the Bible? (Even in your perverted version of the Bible?) Let me guess...everything you don't agree with is somehow NOT the Word of God but everything you DO agree with IS the Word of God? How convenient! How did you come about this super-human power to know the will fo OUR LORD without reading the Bible? I hope you sleep well at night thinking you know better than God.

Prune Danish is willing to accept any punishments mentioned in the bible as literal fact, and yet is happy to cut and change the order to suit his own interpretation.

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Sheesh. What don't you simpletons NOT GET about a list that is sorting the Ten Commandments by descending order of severity of the associated punishment? He called it an anomaly because if they are left as they occur in the Good Book, they are ALMOST in the order of worst punishment (genocide) to least worst (rape, sexual slavery, etc.) That he had to move one by one spot so that they are sorted in the punishment order is so hard for you to grasp?

I wonder if you are all so trigger happy with homosexuals, who are not mentioned in the bible?

Have you even READ the Bible?

The fact that there is a smilie next to where I am writing that depicts three muslims terrorists being blown up suggests to me that this site probably supports sensible, politically correct ideals. Or at least, a middle ages Christian view of sensible, politically correct ideals.

Are you saying that morals are relative? that they depend on what year you are living? That is not what your pope says. In fact, I can't think of a single "Christian" sect that would say morals are relative. Our whole point is that without religion, you end up with moral relativism. Are you saying you think that morals change based on circumstances? Where do you find support for that in the Bible?

The people who follow the bible to the letter need to realise that it is a collection of stories, fables if you will, that teach us how to be good and loving members of mankind.

Can you please cite for me specific instruction in the Bible that state which stories are "fables" or "parables" and which ones are literal? I know it specifically says something like "Jesus then told the Fable of the Fig Tree" and things like that, but doesn't that mean that anything not labeled as such is the truth? If you can show me instructions in the Bible for which things are parables, I will apologize. But I don't think you can. You just don't like God's Law so you make silly statements like "...people who manipulate its meaning through literal interpretation...." I have seriously never heard such trash!

'Let's kill and rape everyone who doesn't agree with us,' is not a mature, reasonable or even sane mantra.

And yet it is what the Bible literally tells us to do. If it's between your skepticism or discomfort and the Word of God, I'll go with God any day of the week, thanks!

I hope you see that you are going to go to Hell if you don't do what the Bible tells you to do. To think you know better than the word of the Bible is hubris at its highest, you heathen!

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Treat others as you would like to be treated is the only message worth quoting from the bible and it covers all situations.

Oh, please.

If that were the "whole story", why wouldn't God have just written that pithy phrase on a tablet, and saved a lot of trees and reading time?

No, Miss Sara Klug. If you accept God's Bible as Holy, then you accept all of it...not just the parts you personally like. Are you a Christian™, or someone founding the Church of Klugulism?

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

If that were the "whole story", why wouldn't God have just written that pithy phrase on a tablet, and saved a lot of trees and reading time?

Well said, Mistress Cookie! In fact, why didn't God just write "Be Nice To Each Other!" across the face of all teh planets in the solar system and the Moon? It would be easy to follow and it would have the added benefit of shutting those atheists up because it would PROVE God is real! Instead He found it best to put down REAL rules that MATTER in a Book and ask us to use our FAITH to find Him. He tests us. He is testing you right now. How are you going to do in his test? Will you get an A+ or an F?

[Wide-Open]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Oh, please.

If that were the "whole story", why wouldn't God have just written that pithy phrase on a tablet, and saved a lot of trees and reading time?

Preach it Sister! Indeed. In nice, friendly letters.

He chose differently for a reason!

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: The Ten Commandments and their Punishments

Whoa there, Nelly. How does someone "manipulate" a text through "literal interpretation?" Seriously, think about what you just said for just ONE second.

I have been waiting to hear back on this, but I feel I am bound to be disappointed since this is the point that all atheists always wander off to never post again. Sure, sometimes they just stop posting for two weeks only to post again on another thread, hoping that we will forget their transgressions. But I never hear a good answer tot his question. It is laughable that it is so easy to stump an atheist!

Lesson learned: When you want an atheist, cathyolick, joo, mooslim, or any other Hell-bound hippie to leave you alone, ask them the following:

"How can a literal reading of the Holy Bible be a "manipulation" of its meaning?"

They don't have an answer to that! SHOUT GLORY!