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[–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Hilarious that the church thinks it can step in and dictate which killings their god endorses

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  • [–] 54 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    I mean thats kind of how that church works.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    With a commandment stating "though shalt not kill" you'd think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The problem is that the Commandments in the Bible are so absolute that they can be reductio ad absurdum'd really easily, forcing Christian theologists to come up with the caveats (which is to say make shit up).

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    With a commandment stating "though shalt not kill" you'd think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter

    Brother, have you picked up and read a Bible? Like even just Exodus?


    Edit: I forgot that the fall of Jericho is the Book of Joshua, not Exodus, although timeline-wise, in the grand scheme of things, it's still basically right after the Commandments, which was what I was getting at.

    Joshua and the Promised Land fucking up my perception of how the Bible flows narratively.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I was raised baptist. There's a difference between events of the bible and what christians are commanded to do. Frankly I don't give a rat's ass anymore.

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