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Omnivorous
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Message 66 of 722 (682082)
11-29-2012 9:11 PM
Reply to: Message 65 by Rahvin
11-29-2012 12:47 PM


Re: Really?
Rahvin writes:
There's an awful lot of discussion going on focusing on whether the Bible says God is "good" or "evil."
Oddly enough, that's not how we tell good from evil in any other circumstance.
I recall from my Official High School Atheist Days my reluctance to accept that an intelligent friend genuinely believed in the God described in the Bible and accepted all the acts ascribed to that God as literal events.
"But...but...then why do you worship that baby-killing SOB?"
And I still don't get it.
If I believed those things, I'd be looking to sign up with the Resistance.
quote:
When they marched into our shelter
I was cautioned to surrender.
This I could not do.
I took my gun and vanished.
-from Buffy Sainte-Marie's cover of Leonard Cohen's The Partisan

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

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