Re: WITCH HUNT 2006 Please Read!
The The Commandments cannot protect you, your friends or their
Taken from Atheist Blog http://www.samizdata.net/mt/suckitsp...?entry_id=4479
Stop trying to find faults in our theology which is based on the literal word of God and look at your own pathetic life. Even better, find a good hiding spot cause witch hunting season is starting and I have an itchy trigger finger.
Originally posted by cjoy017
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sins.Taken from Atheist Blog http://www.samizdata.net/mt/suckitsp...?entry_id=4479
For your information: the Ten Commandments tell you how to behave to members of your own tribe - not to humanity as a whole. As John
Here's a long quotation (sorry, but it's worth the read) from
"In context, neighbor meant "the children of thy people," "the sons of your own people," "your countrymen" -- in other words, fellow in-group members. Specific laws which follow from the love law can be better understood by keeping the in-group definition of neighbor in mind. Consider the
Thou shalt not kill.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Neither shalt thou steal.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
And add the realization that the scrolls from which these words were translated have no periods, no commas, and no first-word capitalization. Decisions about where sentences and paragraphs begin and end are courtesy of the translator. Accordingly, instead of being written as five separate paragraphs of one sentence each, without changing any of the words, Deuteronomy 5:17-21 could be translated:
Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
Here the question, "Thou shalt not kill who?" is answered "Thou shalt not kill thy neighbor -- the children of thy people, your countrymen, your fellow in-group member. "
And to enlighten the adolescent '
Source:
Posted by Charles Copeland at September 9, 2003 04:16 PM
Hartung
pointed out in a pathbreaking
essay in 'The Skeptic' some years ago, it's all a matter of in-group versus out-group morality. Here's a long quotation (sorry, but it's worth the read) from
Hartung's
essay:"In context, neighbor meant "the children of thy people," "the sons of your own people," "your countrymen" -- in other words, fellow in-group members. Specific laws which follow from the love law can be better understood by keeping the in-group definition of neighbor in mind. Consider the
proto
-legal portion of The Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 5:17-21; JPS '17 & KJV):Thou shalt not kill.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Neither shalt thou steal.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
And add the realization that the scrolls from which these words were translated have no periods, no commas, and no first-word capitalization. Decisions about where sentences and paragraphs begin and end are courtesy of the translator. Accordingly, instead of being written as five separate paragraphs of one sentence each, without changing any of the words, Deuteronomy 5:17-21 could be translated:
Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.
Here the question, "Thou shalt not kill who?" is answered "Thou shalt not kill thy neighbor -- the children of thy people, your countrymen, your fellow in-group member. "
And to enlighten the adolescent '
ladyboy
': religion may be junk from the scientific angle, but it's great stuff if you're a bit of DNA. And Islam, garbage though it may be, is - in evolutionary terms - a true instantiation of the survival of the fittest. Source:
Posted by Charles Copeland at September 9, 2003 04:16 PM
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