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Sounds reasonable. The court should agree, then have them both stoned to death for wearing mixed threads, or eating lobster, or cursing their parents, or….
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Haha haha John.
Those guys are totally unhinged. They should be stoned before they get to church and I should repeat here that I oppose capital punishment!
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You can always make an exception 😅
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You are right, good friend
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I agree. A nice, slow stoning that takes 12 hours or so to produce death is exactly what these guys need. It’d be SO biblical!
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Is that stoning in slow motion?
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No, but it’s done with small rocks so it takes longer.
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Haha, I like the idea of small stones
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These two are really horrific bastards.
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That they really are.
A few days some Christian apologist told me that the lives of believers is evidence of god, we must include this, that their god is cruel
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Wouldn’t that also mean that the lives of non-nelievers is evidence there is no God?
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No, I don’t think so
While in my argument above point to gross acts by believers, there are those believers who despite their beliefs or religious persuasions have been exemplary.
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If belief in gods is evidence of there being gods then surely belief that there are no gods is evidence that there are no gods. Behaviour, exemplary or not is irrelevant. I’ll conceed that atheism in not evidence of there being no gods as it’s simply a lack of belief in gods. But if on the other hand there are those who strongly believe there are no gods as I do (in any literal or supernatural sense) then that must also be evidence that there are no gods. I’m just taking the guy’s silly reasoning to its logical conclusion.
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Indeed, taken to its logical conclusion, one must admit that non believer[s], is proof there is no god(s)
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Totally bib’s 😀 We should make that an expression.
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Totally bib’s. It has a nice ring to it
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When I was still a Christian it used to puzzle me why King David was not stoned to death for adultery. It was only after deconversion that I came to understand that the Laws of Moses were likely not actually in existence then, if indeed the story is factual in any way.
John I am increasingly coming around to your view that if ‘God’ does exist then there is much evidence to suggest malevolence as much if not more than to suggest benevolence.
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Stone David? He was a man after god’s heart
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Ramen! I’m about to publish the second TOOAIN book (On The Problem of Good) which confirms this even further 🙂
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That’s exciting. The Problem of Good is a pretty big problem. I look forward to it.
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No problem at all! 🙂
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Actually I would argue that the way the world works if there is a creator deity then perhaps the strongest evidence points towards ‘indifference’, the classic deist position.
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A while back I was reading on the history of the Luo, a sub group in East Africa, and they believed god was indifferent that is why both the wicked and the good could prosper
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As an apologist for TOOAIN, I have to say the natural tendency of Creation to move always towards increasing orders of evil precludes that possibility. That is a teleological birthmark, a stain the Creator could not erase.
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Are there vacancies for apologists of TOOAIN
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Always room in our Big Tent. Aggravetics is a fun practice.
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When do we start
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Yesterday. Have you read our bible yet?
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Is there another or the one you wrote?
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One, but a second coming. Did you ever read it?
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Oh yes. I did read it.
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Hmmmmm……there oughta be a law……….
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I think I know you what you mean
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Are they thinking the bible justifies what they did?!!? I’m so confused ….
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Probably some nonsense like the bible says women are property so what they did was just dandy.
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probably, I guess.
There is nowhere in the bible, that I know of, where it prohibits rape
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It’s always amusing when the Christians whine that their religion and god are being misrepresented. It’s always an easy tell that they’ve never actually read their bible.
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Certainly not taken seriously the sermon on the mount.
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Mark Twain wrote that the \sermon on the mount should be read together with Numbers to see the sarcasm in it.
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It would be most curious if Christians read their bible at all. Peter I will say that your post doesn’t make much sense. can you clarify?
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I mentioned sermon on the mount because that was where Jesus introduced thought crime, such as even looking at woman lustfully makes a man guilty of adultery [as an aside I could never work out how this applied if both the male and female were unmarried].
So I saw the Sermon on the Mount setting the most rigorous standards in the Bible for morality, that is why I mentioned it.
I find that mostly when people want to be governed by the Bible they are focussed on the OT, where if you raped a woman it was OK if you paid some money to her father or married her and the woman was also guilty if on-one heard her scream, or perhaps Numbers 31 where the Israelites were allowed to take foreign woman as sex slaves. That is more the type of Bible laws such folk favour.
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heh. You do have a point with that thought crime.
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they have hardly read their bible
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just like so many Christians.
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Yes, they should be stoned to death …. outside of one of the local churches by women wearing false beards
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Jeff has proposed the use of small stones, I think you will agree
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He’s not a rapist. He’s a very naughty boy.
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The scriptures inform us that Lord G impregnated a young virgin without her consent. They also instruct us to be more “godlike” in our behavior. This could set a bad precedent.
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Sensationalism, plain and simple. They know they’re guilty but they want to turn their case into a three-ring circus. Forget the clowns, they will be the ones who protest in favor of the accused. I hope you are well, my Kenyan brother! Naked hugs!
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“What the fuck?” is right.
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I could think of nothing else.
How are you brother Bob
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I’m doing well, my friend. How’s life in Kenya these days?
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We have elections in August so we are having free political entertainment.
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