Author: iceage
Forum: The Great Debate
Thread: Biblical Coherency (Rob and Iceage Only)
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EvC Forum: Biblical Coherency (Rob and Iceage Only)
Rob writes:
It is up to us to take responsibility, and sometimes wipe out whole communities to keep the 'total organism' within our control.
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Yikes! glad the Christian theist are no longer in control.
Those who blasphemously worship the bible itself and their "faith" requires that the Bible be considered as a whole divinely inspired work of the creator, this specific ethical contradiction is the best antidote to that notion. Other contradictions like Matthew misquoting and misreferencing the OT and gemological errors are trivial by comparison. The wide gaping disparity between godly commanded genocide and loving your neighbor is too wide to justify honestly or rationally.
As an aside, I believe the chief value of the Bible is the documentation of the evolution or transformation of human ethics, such as:
Love your tribal neighbor -> Love your non-tribal neighbor -> Love your enemy.
—iceage
This observation so neatly sums up the problem I (and I presume others) have with Biblical fundamentalists, as any thinking person IMHO would have concerning fundamentalists of any religious, political, or a combination of both, persuasions.
Edited by anglagard, : add an appropriate comma
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