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Out of context: Reply #262
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- mikotondria30
There is nothing, nothing, in the Christian bible, or the 'sacred' texts of any religion that furthers or enlightens mankind one bit. There is no unique and sound morality that has not been discovered or practiced elsewhere - love thy neighbor as you love yourself - although a world apart from the morality of animals is a quality of humanity that has been practiced in every culture - the basic tennets of respect for one another was not 'discovered' by some devine revelation in one place, several thousand years ago.
It's not as if the children of Israel got out into the desert and suddently realised that they shouldnt steal or kill - such concepts had been bound into law in many cultures that had preceded them.- look no further than how many lives have been redically transformed.....designbot
- *radically. And I have witnessed this first hand many times.designbot
- I am talking about people going from abusive alcoholics to being completely transformed by the Bible alone.designbot
- the aztecs for instance********
- christianity is not the only religion that has 'transformed' lives. don't think your brand of faith is the only tranformational force.spifflink
- i have also seen a lot of lives wrecked completely because of christianity, but that is anecdotal.spifflink
- hey spiff, I was responding directly to his comment....leave it in it's context :)designbot
- please explain a life "wrecked" by Christianity that you have witnessed?designbot
- i have seen divorces over it, suicides over it, and many many other things.spifflink
- how is my comment taking yours out of context. honestly keep track of the conversation.spifflink
- i won't question your supposed witness of christ if you won't question my witness of the destructive power of ignorance.spifflink
- You are going to have to be more specific. Suicide over it??designbot
- well the reason I ask is because I don't see how it's possible unless scripture is twisted...or it was from some radical church.designbot
- yep. you know, when you end your life because of subjectively unbearable outside influences.spifflink
- well while i believe in humanity's greatness, people are corruptible, including religious people *gasp*spifflink
- Well, I know people personally, very close friends. who were going to kill themselves until they were radically transformed.designbot
- .....people who claim to be christian might twist scripture and cause someone to do this, but scripture alone would never cause this.designbot
- cause someone to do this. Everything written stands against this type of action.designbot
- I am not making any of this up either, been witness to some truly crazy events people have come out of.designbot
- are you saying I am making these things up? never mind. i am done.spifflink
- No not at all. I am just saying that based on everything the Bible teaches to claim someone committed suicide from it seems very contradictory.designbot
- very contradictory.designbot