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Originally Posted by dor  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
What does that mean? How does that relate to my examples of biblical pronouncements of vengeance?
I don't understand. What is my freudian slip?
Is that not the cornerstone of traditional christian faith? My understanding is that's it in a nutshell: "Accept me as your personal savior, or suffer in agony for all eternity." Did Jesus not say that? Cuz that's what the proselytizers tell me I have to do, and what the consequences are for failing to comply. I added the 'stinky' because brimstone is supposed to smell really really bad. Sorry if that was snarky. But I think it's an accurate description of "hell". Hell for me would certainly involve stinkiness. |
Freudian slip using Christ as an example of bashing Dawkins a, and I had said that I find Dawkins and his
disciples as fanatic as the fanaticism they so loudly condemn.
vengence: the central saying of Christ is that you must love God, and love thy neighbor as thyself and ON THIS hang ALL the laws - in other words it
overrides vengeance - and "eye for an eye" .
Usually people who read cherry picked quotes from the bible (which is really just a mini-library as opposed to a book. ).....don't grasp this central belief of the Christian faith. not saying that everyone follows it perfectly and its open to everything to interpretation...but ...it pretty obvious, at least to me that if this saying by Christ overrides any vengence, than the bible is not vengence based....(I certainly don't see anything in the gospels, which is central to christiantiy, as vengeance based.
again, I think atheistist problem is not too little faith, but too much.