[geeks] Re: [rescue] It's official, the U.S. is screwed for 4 more years

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 @ 12:02 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> The thing with a lot of these "moral" decisions made based on the
> Bible is that half the time, they get'em wrong anyway.  Of course, this
> is hardly surprising when you consider the idea that the Authorized
> King James V Bible is the verbatim word of God and literally true even
> when it contradicts itself.

> For example:  The Old Testament, commonly regarded as the more barbaric
> and bloody part of the Bible, says (or is almost universally
> mistranslated as saying) "Thou shalt not kill."  But it also says, "Thou
> shalt not suffer a well-poisoner to live" ('witch' is a mistranslation),
> and "If a man comes to kill you, then rise up and kill him."

The Bible is a canonized record of the works of many people different
people, written in many different contexts.

Drawing absolute comparisons from one section to another is useless.

Keep in mind that English and American law are based on the Ten
Commandments, not the rest of the Bible.

Finally, your analysis is incorrect because it ignores the context of
the two verses.

It would be like trying to equate the law regarding murder versus self
defense.

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