Posted on 05/04/2014 12:34:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Legendary conservative columnist George Will says he is an atheist. […]
“I’m an amiable, low voltage atheist,” Will explained. “I deeply respect religions and religious people. The great religions reflect something constant and noble in the human character, defensible and admirable yearnings.”
“I am just not persuaded. That’s all,” he added. …
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In what universe is genocide justifiable to combat "aggression"?
How is this moral?
Taken from your link: a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably:--catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.
“You don’t understand physics.”
I don’t know why you say this. No explanation either. I made straight A’s in physics. Did much work on entropy and other losses in Thermodynamics in college. I have worked on complex electrical enginnering designs for over 30 years. I think I do understand physics except particle theory.
Another question begged is, did the Amalekites slaughter defenseless children when they attacked the Israelites? What kind of culture, then, were the Amalekites?—we see child soldiers even today, not exactly defenseless.
Like I said, I wasn’t there. I suspect you weren’t either, but then I’m presuming you aren’t in possession of a time machine.
It’s good that someone at your level has been able to elevate your thoughts that far.
I’d like to have made straight As in physics. I tried my best to stick with memorizing the plug/chug calculus equations, but it didn’t help having substitute professors. Calculating voltages in circuits still gives me headaches.
By the way, just curious about your opinion, if you “manipulate” a 13 year old damsel into sex, is it rape?
The one true God does not lie and does not require lying. He is a just God who allows freedom of choice, whether the choice is good or bad. God does not violate freedom of conscience, the god of Islam does. They are not the same.
Believers are sinners—through belief they recognize this.
They understand that the only way to God—who is not simply pure but purity itself—is to first recognize not that they are “precious” but that they are sinners. Broken, flawed, sinful, hopeless. But God has provided the solution—redemption through repentance and faith.
Where does he tell you that slavery is wrong, and what is his reason?
Under our laws, yes. But it isn’t by means of “khazaq”, but rather “taphas”. Since we have deemed it rape, it is rape therefore.
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:36-40
and now we know why...
If American troops encounter child soldiers, are they commanded to exterminate them down to the last breathing soul, or disarm them and help them? Does it matter what the Amalekite adults did with respect to how to treat their children?
Why in the hell are you defending the indefensible, instead of accepting what common sense tells you:
There's no cosmic authority in the OT. It is a Bronze Age book filled with Bronze Age morality. End of story.
1. Your belief in argumentation itself assumes, without justification, that there are prescriptive, abstract, universal, unchanging laws of logic and reason.
2. Your belief also assumes, without justification, that the unaided reason of a finite individual that is limited in the scope of its use and experiences can pronounce on what is universally true (descriptively) or is in a position to dictate (prescriptively) universal laws of reason and to assure us that these prescriptions for the brain will somehow prove applicable to the ever-changing world of matter in motion outside your individual brain.
Cordially,
You live rent free in my head. Whenever I see a model of the solar system, there’s always this feeling that you might be right. Maybe the Sun DOES go around the Earth.
The cosmic authority of the OT is the creator of the cosmos: Yehova.
Your rejection of his authority is what establishes your future value: ________________
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Why is loving God moral?
Thanks for establishing your level of understanding ( 0 )
Why do you respect his authority?
You’ve arbitrarily deemed it “indefensible”, and without citing a specific code of morality. I thought we weren’t turning ourselves into authorities here?
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