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Reply #15 - Dec 1st, 2016 at 11:03pm
 
Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 10:32pm:
Aussie wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:33pm:
Raven.....I have learned that lesson.  The 'Old Testament' can  be safely ignored as not the Word of God, the instant the good old entrance of Jesus made a mockery of it......apparently.



We'll what does Raven know. He was raised in a cult. Every week on the day of the sun god Ra Raven had to kneel before an ancient device of torture and ritualistically consume symbolic flesh and blood.

The worst part was Saint Mary's Cathedral had no air con and it gets bloody hot in Darwin

The problem with cafeteria Christians is that they pick and choose which doctrine to follow.

There is no such thing as a Christian


Whilst Setanta agrees with Raven, perhaps some other religions would be less harmful if they had cafeteria versions. Setanta also was brought up on his knees. Even jokes about it. Work on someones computer, kneels on floor, "want a chair?, nah, I've got Catholic knees.
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Reply #16 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:26am
 
Bible/Khoran- you name it - guidelines.. not fixed rules...

Treat everyone as you would want to be treated and you cannot go too wrong...
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Reply #17 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:28am
 
Setanta wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 11:03pm:
Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 10:32pm:
Aussie wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:33pm:
Raven.....I have learned that lesson.  The 'Old Testament' can  be safely ignored as not the Word of God, the instant the good old entrance of Jesus made a mockery of it......apparently.



We'll what does Raven know. He was raised in a cult. Every week on the day of the sun god Ra Raven had to kneel before an ancient device of torture and ritualistically consume symbolic flesh and blood.

The worst part was Saint Mary's Cathedral had no air con and it gets bloody hot in Darwin

The problem with cafeteria Christians is that they pick and choose which doctrine to follow.

There is no such thing as a Christian


Whilst Setanta agrees with Raven, perhaps some other religions would be less harmful if they had cafeteria versions. Setanta also was brought up on his knees. Even jokes about it. Work on someones computer, kneels on floor, "want a chair?, nah, I've got Catholic knees.



We've got mall or cafe` mujahideen in Oz at this time...

(stupid spell correct doesn't recognise 'mujahideen'... DISCRIMINATION, by Allah!  I sense a beheading coming on!!!!)
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Reply #18 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:34am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:26am:
Bible/Khoran- you name it - guidelines.. not fixed rules...

Treat everyone as you would want to be treated and you cannot go too wrong...


Sure, but if you find yourself up against the wall because others are not so kind as you, and they think that you are weak because you profess kindness, then what do you do?

You make an example of those bunnies, that's what you do.

They should respect and appreciate your kindness. If they don't, then to hell with them all.



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Reply #19 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am
 
Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:
Yadda wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 6:47pm:

Yes, that punishment [death, for being a covenant breaker] is in the O.T.




Raven isn't talking about covenants he was talking about morality.




Raven,

What morality is that ?

Is it the morality,        that it is OK to make a covenant with someone,      and that it is then OK [i.e. NOT immoral], for you to later break the terms of the covenant that you made with another person ?

Raven,

How would that be moral [if you had freely agreed to the terms of the covenant] ?




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Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:

You and other cafeteria Christians want us to live by god's word and his morality. So Raven has a question for you

How is it moral to execute people who have committed no crime while at the same time force a woman to marry the man who raped her? A man she can never divorce.



What
'no crime'
did the executed people NOT commit ?

Raven,

You may be of the view, that breaking a covenant that was made with God and your community, is no crime.

But that is where you and i differ.





'force a woman to marry the man who raped her'


Poppycock!

In God's law no woman was, or could be, forced to marry a man [whether that man had raped her or not].   ...and an unmarried woman is under the protection of her father.


Exodus 22:16
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
17  If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.



A man will be put to death if he rapes a woman, who is promised [betrothed] to another man.

Deuteronomy 22:25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26  But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27  For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.



The man who rapes a woman, can be forced - IN LAW - to marry the woman he raped.

Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29  Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.




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Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:

If a book equates a woman's worth to that of 200 foreskins (1 Samuel 18:27) it is both profane and repulsive.



The father [Saul] had to agree [had to give his consent], before his daughter could marry David.

That was the custom at that time.

The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.

That private covenant between Saul and David, had nothing to do with the God of Israel, or his law.


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Reply #20 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:36am
 
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am:
Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:
Yadda wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 6:47pm:

Yes, that punishment [death, for being a covenant breaker] is in the O.T.




Raven isn't talking about covenants he was talking about morality.




Raven,

What morality is that ?

Is it the morality,        that it is OK to make a covenant with someone,      and that it is then OK [i.e. NOT immoral], for you to later break the terms of the covenant that you made with another person ?



Raven,

How would that be moral [if you had freely agreed to the terms of the covenant] ?


You accept that it is indeed a moral act for a person to be executed because he picks a stick up off the ground? Are you high?

How is it moral to follow unjustified commands?


Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:

You and other cafeteria Christians want us to live by god's word and his morality. So Raven has a question for you

How is it moral to execute people who have committed no crime while at the same time force a woman to marry the man who raped her? A man she can never divorce.



What
'no crime'
did the executed people NOT commit ?

Raven,

You may be of the view, that breaking a covenant that was made with God and your community, is no crime.

But that is where you and i differ.

Is picking up a stick a crime? How about teasing a priest? A woman following her "god given" urges. You are honestly, hand to your god, telling Raven that it is crime punishable by death to commit so called offences?




'force a woman to marry the man who raped her'


Poppycock!

In God's law no woman was, or could be, forced to marry a man [whether that man had raped her or not].   ...and an unmarried woman is under the protection of her father.


Exodus 22:16
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
17  If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.



A man will be put to death if he rapes a woman, who is promised [betrothed] to another man.

Deuteronomy 22:25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26  But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27  For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.



The man who rapes a woman, can be forced - IN LAW - to marry the woman he raped.

Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29  Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

Sweet zombie Jesus do you listen to yourself? On one hand you say that no woman could be forced to marry a man. You then say a man could be forced to marry the woman he rapes. Do you really think the woman who was raped was not being forced into the marriage?


Raven wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 9:24pm:

If a book equates a woman's worth to that of 200 foreskins (1 Samuel 18:27) it is both profane and repulsive.



The father [Saul] had to agree [had to give his consent], before his daughter could marry David.

That was the custom at that time.

The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.

That private covenant between Saul and David, had nothing to do with the God of Israel, or his law.




Yet your book deems this acceptable. Where is the morality in that?

According to the bible:

Eating pork (Leviticus 11:7)
Eating shellfish (Leviticus 11:9-12)
Homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22)
Wearing clothes of mixed fabrics (Leviticus 19:19)
Shaving (Leviticus 19:27)

Are all wrong and a sin. However:

Slavery (Exodus 21:7)
Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
Child abuse (Proverbs 22:15)
Child murder (2 Samuel 12:14)

Are all perfectly fine and natural.
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Reply #21 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:37am
 
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am:
The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.


Is that not barbaric? How many foreskins is a daughter worth? Does she make a good sammich? They better not be ham! Did god approve?


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Reply #22 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 9:21am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 1st, 2016 at 8:40am:
"The report warns that society is forgetting "that its many freedoms derive from centuries of applying the Bible to public life".

That's a bare-faced lie and should not go unchallenged.

It was the church that resisted all attempts to modernise society and to liberate it from the shackles of religious dictatorship.

All our current freedoms were hard-fought against a church that had a vested interest in keeping people ignorant, afraid, and bonded to religious dogma.

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It's kind of true. It was the Protestants that gave us classical liberalism - freedom from constraint, individualism - in short, negative freedom. Our modern conception of freedom is Protestantism stripped of all its religious affiliations. But yeah, the Protestants were fighting another religious group - the Catholics, so make of that what you want. 
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Reply #23 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:32am
 
Setanta wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:37am:
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am:
The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.


Is that not barbaric?

How many foreskins is a daughter worth?





Why,       why,        oh why!       is Australia SO, SO FULL, of such ignorant, uninformed people ?

ANSWER;
It is because they HATE their creator.




Setanta,

If you had actually read the scripture that Raven referred to,
         you would have understood that Saul told David to get the foreskins of the Philistines, as an impediment to David marrying his [Saul's] daughter.

Saul DID NOT WANT David to be able to marry his daughter

Saul wanted David to die, trying to fulfill the particular requirement that Saul set for David.




And Setanta, i might say,          that if you wanted to marry my daughter, i'd be requiring you to get 1,000 foreskins of the Philistines.
......coz i would NOT want my daughter to marry someone as THICK as you,        nor anyone as IMMORAL as Raven [the person who feels that the conditions of a covenant with another person has no worth, and could be discarded].
n.b. when two people marry, they too make a covenant [they make PROMISES], to their marriage partner.     e.g. that they will remain sexually faithful to each other.  it is called FIDELITY in a relationship.


1 Samuel 18:20
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21  And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
22  And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
23  And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24  And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25  And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.



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Reply #24 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:45am
 
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:32am:
Setanta wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:37am:
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am:
The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.


Is that not barbaric?

How many foreskins is a daughter worth?





Why,       why,        oh why!       is Australia SO, SO FULL, of such ignorant, uninformed people ?

ANSWER;
It is because they HATE their creator.




Setanta,

If you had actually read the scripture that Raven referred to,
         you would have understood that Saul told David to get the foreskins of the Philistines, as an impediment to David marrying his [Saul's] daughter.

Saul DID NOT WANT David to be able to marry his daughter

Saul wanted David to die, trying to fulfill the particular requirement that Saul set for David.




And Setanta, i might say,          that if you wanted to marry my daughter, i'd be requiring you to get 1,000 foreskins of the Philistines.
......coz i would NOT want my daughter to marry someone as THICK as you,        nor anyone as IMMORAL as Raven [the person who feels that the conditions of a covenant with another person has no worth, and could be discarded].
n.b. when two people marry, they too make a covenant [they make PROMISES], to their marriage partner.     e.g. that they will remain sexually faithful to each other.  it is called FIDELITY in a relationship.


1 Samuel 18:20
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21  And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
22  And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
23  And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24  And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25  And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.



Perhaps David should have just raped her and paid Saul a few shekels.
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Reply #25 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:50am
 
Raven wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:36am:

Yet your book deems this acceptable.

Where is the morality in that?

According to the bible:

Eating pork (Leviticus 11:7)
Eating shellfish (Leviticus 11:9-12)
Homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22)
Wearing clothes of mixed fabrics (Leviticus 19:19)
Shaving (Leviticus 19:27)

Are all wrong and a sin. However:

Slavery (Exodus 21:7)
Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
Child abuse (Proverbs 22:15)
Child murder (2 Samuel 12:14)

Are all perfectly fine and natural.





Raven,

I could respond to that.

But you are simply too IMMORAL to understand that if you freely enter into a covenant with another person,         and if you agree to the conditions [and understand the penalties for breaking those conditions], then you do need to try to honour your agreement/covenant.

But i understand, that you cannot see why anyone should expect such respect and honour FROM YOURSELF, TO THEM......

.....because you are simply too IMMORAL to understand what morality     m e a n s.




Dictionary;
morality = = principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.




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Reply #26 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:53am
 
Not really answering anything with that one Yadda./
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Reply #27 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:53am
 
Setanta wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:45am:
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:32am:
Setanta wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 1:37am:
Yadda wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 12:38am:
The matter of the 200 foreskins, was a private covenant between Saul and David.


Is that not barbaric?

How many foreskins is a daughter worth?





Why,       why,        oh why!       is Australia SO, SO FULL, of such ignorant, uninformed people ?

ANSWER;
It is because they HATE their creator.




Setanta,

If you had actually read the scripture that Raven referred to,
         you would have understood that Saul told David to get the foreskins of the Philistines, as an impediment to David marrying his [Saul's] daughter.

Saul DID NOT WANT David to be able to marry his daughter

Saul wanted David to die, trying to fulfill the particular requirement that Saul set for David.




And Setanta, i might say,          that if you wanted to marry my daughter, i'd be requiring you to get 1,000 foreskins of the Philistines.
......coz i would NOT want my daughter to marry someone as THICK as you,        nor anyone as IMMORAL as Raven [the person who feels that the conditions of a covenant with another person has no worth, and could be discarded].
n.b. when two people marry, they too make a covenant [they make PROMISES], to their marriage partner.     e.g. that they will remain sexually faithful to each other.  it is called FIDELITY in a relationship.


1 Samuel 18:20
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21  And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
22  And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
23  And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24  And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25  And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.



Perhaps David should have just raped her and paid Saul a few shekels.





Another Australian [circa 2016] who simply does not have any respect for the concept of morality.

No wonder, we are now, a nation full of half-wits and LAWLESS criminals.




Dictionary;
morality = = principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.


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Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:53am:
Not really answering anything with that one Yadda./




Unlike yourself, i'm just an opinionated git.

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Reply #29 - Dec 2nd, 2016 at 11:58am
 
Again not really answering anything.
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