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Karl Hungus said:
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Brad Lee said:
You are misinterpreting the Bible on slavery, murder for minor indiscretions, and etc. What is a minor discretion that gets the death penalty. Further, please allow me to explain how the death penalty handed out. Two, not one, but two knowledgeable people have to actually see the discretion as it happens. Not only that, but they have to worn the person of the act he is about to commit. What does that mean? It means they have to make sure the person not only understands what he is doing is wrong, but why it's wrong, and what the punishment is. Now, how often does it happen that witnesses can do that? The death penalty is therefore nearly impossible to hand out.



Instead of typing stuff out, I'll let a good actor explain the biblical sins we no longer consider serious.

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As for living a life of torture, what's the point of living a life of poor health? Not all medical issues are treatable, believe me, I know from personal experience. What is the point in my painful existence? I'll tell what I believe. I believe this is what I need to purify my soul so that it can move on the world to come (yes, I do believe in reincarnation, and that we keep coming back until we get it right). I have physical problems, other people have internal problems. For example, former president Bill Clinton has a problem being a faithful husband. That is his problem to work on in this world. He could not act on his feelings, which would have saved him the embarrassment of impeachment, or he could act on those feelings, which he did. I do believe it is that simple, and that there is a higher purpose to our personal problems in life.


You equate homosexuality with doing something wrong though. The bible is an old book. Even if you believe in Jesus, the bible wasn't written by him, it was written years after the fact so at best its hearsay.
Personally I don't believe in the concept of god giving us a rulebook. I don't believe in the concept of god creating an entire race of people so that they can serve and worship it. I don't believe in god creating humans to feel "wrong" just so they can overcome that and be unhappy but "right."
It makes no sense and makes your god out to be a real asshole who likes to torture people.
I think the best analogy would be feeling that you have a calling as an artist, but living in a household of lawyers and being pressured to follow in their footsteps . So the artist can be an artist and be happy, or he can live his whole life miserable as a lawyer simply because that's what is expected.
Makes god seem rather petty. I would like to think that if their was a god, he'd be much more together as a being than the jealous, pissy, selfish god christians and muslims present him as.




"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.