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Perfect! Too bad it took so long to come to an agreement. The Bible has quite a few instances in which God was a murderous bastard in achieving His ineffable ends, he used genocide, murder, rape, and a host of other things. I think that is all blasphemy, I don't for single second think that a Being capable of creating the Universe has to resort to those kinds of tactics. And by so doing (if He did it) God gives people the same right (in their eyes) to use those same tactics when they feel the cause is just or even if they feel like it.You can't have it both ways, Who, either there ARE standards of behavior or there are NOT. If God can break the rules when it suits Him, then people will always assume that they too can break the rules when it suits them. It's funny how Christians claim that there are universal truths (the most popular one right now is that it's sinful to be gay), but those Universal truths don't always apply. You can say that God is God and can do as He wishes, perhaps, but He is standing in loco parentis for us and should be setting the example--just like Jesus did.None of the violent cruelty in the Bible is necessary for the explanation or dissemination of Jesus' message of love, let's rewrite the Bible with the focus being the good things that Jesus said, the commandments that He pronounced, and take out of the Bible all the things that people can use to circumvent His commandments. Let's make Christianity about Christ, not about goatherder culture.
Perfect! Too bad it took so long to come to an agreement. The Bible has quite a few instances in which God was a murderous bastard in achieving His ineffable ends, he used genocide, murder, rape, and a host of other things. I think that is all blasphemy, I don't for single second think that a Being capable of creating the Universe has to resort to those kinds of tactics. And by so doing (if He did it) God gives people the same right (in their eyes) to use those same tactics when they feel the cause is just or even if they feel like it.
You can't have it both ways, Who, either there ARE standards of behavior or there are NOT. If God can break the rules when it suits Him, then people will always assume that they too can break the rules when it suits them. It's funny how Christians claim that there are universal truths (the most popular one right now is that it's sinful to be gay), but those Universal truths don't always apply. You can say that God is God and can do as He wishes, perhaps, but He is standing in loco parentis for us and should be setting the example--just like Jesus did.
None of the violent cruelty in the Bible is necessary for the explanation or dissemination of Jesus' message of love, let's rewrite the Bible with the focus being the good things that Jesus said, the commandments that He pronounced, and take out of the Bible all the things that people can use to circumvent His commandments. Let's make Christianity about Christ, not about goatherder culture.
