On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "so your evidence for your argument is that in some places, you cannot buy > beer on Sundays." > > No, it's no my evidence. It's just a fact. One in which you still cannot > give a reason for. > and neither can you. It's an obtuse law. > I can't figure out why you are so adamantly trying to defend the argument > that Bible is no longer relevant today? Acknowledging that it is still > influential doesn't discredit Atheist creds. > > > "what about recognition of a divorce .that seems to go against the > religion." > > How so? Divorce is not encouraged in most religions, but it is not > forbidden. really? so the whole "what god has put together let no man tear apart" that's not a forbidding it? > > > "what about being allowed to work on Sunday?" > "what about all those things in the Dr. Laura joke?" > > What about them? These are issues that are addressed with New Testament > theology, which I am not going to get into. > Ok, so now you're admitting that the law against buying beer on Sunday probably doesn't have any basis in religion because the New Testament addressed the Sunday thing? > > "That had nothing to do with religion." > > Wrong. Monarchs were theoretically placed in power by God. > and you believe they were rebelling against god choosing a leader for them vs rebelling against having a monarch? > > "So, I stand by my assertion that the bible isn't relevant to legislation > today. " > > That was not your original assertion. It was the Bible's relation to > society. Society =/= legislation even if that's what all the progressive > statists want. > This is what I originally said: "No, I don't have an issue with a political candidate who's religious. It's just when they start framing their public policy in regards to their religion that's when I tune them out. The bible is not relevant to the workings of today society. Trying to apply lessons from it is usually fruitless, on top of the notion that you can find support for any position you want to defend in the bible." > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:361035 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
