Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: liks2plzlf The bible says it belongs to the Jews,period. Who is in possesion of the land now? The Bible also says adulterous women should be stoned to death*. When you advocate that as part of our law today, I might start to wonder if biblical pronouncements could possibly be relevant to 21st century international relations. * "If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;" (Deuteronomy 22:22) "Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:24) Good point ! If the Bible is to be used as the source of ancient rights, those rights have to be questioned if the bible/holy scripture also contains what we now know to be wrong, be it law or science proved inaccuracy or just plain fallacy. Either one believes in the bible, or they don't, picking and choosing what one wants to believe is not acceptable, one is either a believer or not. And as for this which revision does one prefer, well I would expect the oldest interpretation is the correct one, and the rest modified interpretations for the prevailing politics at the time, or how to screw people up further once one has got them by the balls with religion.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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