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LostOne4Ever

(9,288 posts)
10. What i don't get
Wed May 1, 2013, 11:38 PM
May 2013

If they are not going to take the bible literally, why give that book special meaning at all? You could easily make your own book or find another book with those exact same morals that you LIKE without all the anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-thought crap you find in the bible.



Or at the very least pull a modern day Thomas Jefferson and take a pair of scissors to the book and remove all the bigotted shit. But like the Jefferson Bible you would probably end up with a very very thin book.

I think if you removed all the bigotted stuff along with all the supernatural events you would end up with the songs of solomon and half of the sermon on the mount at most

I think hell just froze. [View all] cleanhippie May 2013 OP
what constitutes "extreme" AlbertCat May 2013 #1
Easy. trotsky May 2013 #2
That's what I was thinking! cleanhippie May 2013 #3
Or, other religions besides his. n/t Mr.Bill May 2013 #4
That exactly (nt) LostOne4Ever May 2013 #6
No, those are all ordinary Warpy May 2013 #5
I had a discussion with a Lutheran Pastor Gore1FL May 2013 #7
If she can't tell which parts are literal, how does she know what to believe? FiveGoodMen May 2013 #8
That is close to what I was asking. Gore1FL May 2013 #9
What i don't get LostOne4Ever May 2013 #10
:) plus the word 'begat' repeated over and over .. Phillip McCleod May 2013 #11
Like Doyle said in Slingblade... awoke_in_2003 May 2013 #13
Didn't someone post an article defacto7 May 2013 #12
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