|
|
| Re: Jefferson Rewrites the Bible? (333813) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > OTChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Jefferson Rewrites the Bible? |
|
|
Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 8 00:47:04 2008, in response to Re: Jefferson Rewrites the Bible?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Jul 6 09:19:32 2008. Examples of such done in "God's name"? especially 20th Century examples? Not that "(doing things) in God's name" means that it's actually what God told them to do.Society is falling apart because we've forgotten the principles of compassion and community that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom (see my post "Woman Dies In Hospital, Ignored By Staff") I saw that on the news as well. Was that performed in God's name? I'm glad you acknowledge that we are separated from animals on some level. Spain has given apes rights on the human level, of late. We plunder our natural resources, live for instant gratification, practice bigotry and hatred on a truly astonishing scale, and wage war without end "We"? I think you're making a blanket statement, here. Most people are trying to merely make a living. It's the people with the power that are actually shaping things on a societal level, especially when it comes to making families disintegrate (something that Marx wanted to do, most definitely not in God's name or in the name of any other spiritual entity or deity-like being). History is littered with examples of that, such as Manifest Destiny, the Crusades, 9/11, etc., ad nauseaum Like I said above, there's a difference between invoking God's name and actually doing what God tells you to do — and we have a book that speaks against doing evil in God's name, with these precepts more flouted than anything else. (As for "Manifest Destiny", if you're equating that with the Crusades and 9/11, you need to study history a bit better, and include sources that are not biased and/or revisionist. The phrase was not originally territorial in nature, nor did it ever become so specifically.) |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|