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The Old Testament?
Are you thinking the Old Testament is spiritually legally binding...and is a superior moral take???
Are you fucking kidding me?
The teachings of the Old Testament WAS, back in its day, something considered necessary in order to protect the ancient Hebrews from the gods of their enemies.
IT WAS CONSIDERED NECESSARY...and I agree that a relatively unsophisticated, unknowledgeable, superstitious people (the ancient Hebrews) thought it to be just fine...and I can easily understand their feelings and fears.
All of this is what I said.
But if you think the teachings of Leviticus and Deuteronomy ARE, today, of superior morality...then you should be institutionalized.
It includes a necessary mythology (as with every primitive religion) which served its purpose.
I have no more problem with it...than I have with the myths and legends of Greece and Rome.
What are you getting at, AssHat?
ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!
Last edited by Hermes Thoth; 02-08-2023 at 01:05 PM.
the infinite ingroup is morality. tribalism has only some aspects of morality.
As I have said many, many times...Jesus had some great ideas about how humans should act and how they should conduct themselves with each other. I try to incorporate many of his teachings into my personal philosophy.
I wish more Christians would do the same.
Come to me!
ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!
If we are bickering (no reason for us to do so)...we are not bickering over artwork. We are "bickering" over whether Jesus probably looked more like the rendering I offered...or the one you did.
It essentially is a blind guess about what a Jew of the early 1st Century looks like.
ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!
Religions are horrid. They seek membership and power. They want to control governments. They are very divisive and drive people apart. They create damage and strife. People do not need them to do right.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
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