Buzsaw writes:
As a matter of fact, North Korea's absolute control of what information the kiddies get in that nation's science education more resembles your idea of truth than Buz''s, Anglagard. Perhaps yours would not stand on it's own (abe: here in the US of A ) if it weren't, like in NK, mandated as the only version available for consideration.
My argument is that you have an extreme minority interpretation of of the Bible and it appears to me the only way you can justify such an extreme viewpoint to the majority of adherents is through the use of force.
I find it interesting that there are actually some who consider the most important lesson of Christianity is which day is the day of rest regardless of anything Jesus may have said about how unimportant such an intense and overriding focus is to the ideal of Jesus. But this is not surprising, how many false prophets have there been?
Magic translating rocks, false predictions of the second coming in 1843 and them 1844 and then anytime you please, claims to personally herald the second coming as in Koresh and Manson etc. claims to actually be Jesus, as in the Sung Myong Moon, should all these aberrations be taught as gospel in the public schools?
Buz, the problem is that your self-inflated opinion of your magic ability to interpret the Bible for all for all time is just that, a product of egotistical delusion.
I find it interesting that virtually all self-important blowhards are psychologically incapable of even beginning to consider one lesson of Jesus, that of humility before God.
So the deal is piss off Buz, I will potentially cure ignorance as a master reference librarian, my sister will continue to remediate the awful effects of pollution from those who rape the earth, God's creation, from the sewer philosophy of the end is at hand, and my daughter will help feed the poor, heal the sick, and create prosperity thorough the study of science and engineering.
What have you done in the name of the ultimate teachings of Jesus (or Krishna, or Lhotse, or Confucius, or Buddha, or any of many who taught humility before God) lately?
Coral wheels in the Red Sea? is that really more important than the Sermon on the Mount?
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen