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Oh, I'm SO happy I'm a Deist and don't believe in ANY 'Holy Text,' so that nobody can throw it back at me...
It's all crap. Every line in every chapter of every holy book ever written. It's hogwash. It's crud. It's that stuff you find under a refrigerator that hasn't been moved or cleaned or swept under in 20 years.
People wrote them. Oh, they may have THOUGHT they were inspired, but so does every hack harlequin writer. Nonsense. Scattered bits of good ideas drowned in a sea of poopy.
I'm goin' ta hell for that bit. After this holiday season, it should be a frickin' BREEZE.
WHEE!
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Isn't it funny how people can hold up the Ten Commandments as the "word of god", and then disclaim the entire rest of the Mosaic Law in the same breath...?
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Yet another reason why I'm a "non-practicing" Catholic.
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Well, the thing is, most of the ten commandments were repeated by Christ, and are in fact an outgrowth of the basis of Christ's teachings (Love God, love man, love yourself). The exception is the one about Saturdays, which was never repeated. IMO, the reason for that is that under Christ, we're supposed to dedicate our whole lives to Him, so why do you need a special day to do the same thing?
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In theory, we're supposed to. I mean, how can we NOT celebrate the birth and ressurection of Christ constantly?
But as for the special days thing, it's more tradition than anything. Nothing binding.
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Well, I'm sure Jesus would have us celebrate his birth and death every day, rather than the incorrect days we celebrate them now.
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You know, that's an interesting point. We know for certain when the crucifiction was relative to the Passover feast, and we know when the ressurection took place relative to that, so we should, in theory, be able to figure out the exact date of the ressurection. However, Easter still shifts between two different months. I'd never thought of that.
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Omega: So, anything that was said in the OT, and repeated in the NT, that's the stuff that's still applicable? And anything not repeated isn't?
Okay, so how about this... I posed this question to my religion teacher senior year in high school, and he couldn't answer satisfactorily... If Yahweh said one thing during the Exodus, and then sent someone along thirteen centuries later to say something different, why did he change his mind? Isn't he supposed to be all-knowing? Doesn't he know what's right and what's wrong? Why would he say "this is wrong" and then, a while later, say "okay, never mind, it's alright". Because that's what you're suggesting he did.
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Or maybe he decided to raise the standards a bit. Which is harder: an eye for an eye, or turning the other cheek?
The law was the law given to the jews. Well, I ain't a jew.
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