-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > > Suicide should be legal, but euthanasia is "someone else killing > you", and I see that as a great slippery slope towards total > government control over life. >
Well, it isn't. Neither is euthanasia there, but the government does find it perfectly moral to put criminals to death, and not to protect unborn children. I don't see very much consistency in the policies. >>>> Either way one looks at it, the Bible is condoning behavior that is no >>>> longer accepted as being morally just. Or perhaps it is just telling us >>>> what happened, so we can learn from the past. I can't say that seems >>>> very evident looking at many of the things that happen today. >>> Shedding the blood of animals to *cover* human sin was what YHWH >>> demanded. > >> I just don't get how killing something else can atone for your sins. >> penitence must occur to oneself, not to another being. > > And I don't think there is "sin", since I'm an atheist. > > Although I do believe that there is "evil". Is that contradictory? > I would think that it is, yes, a bit contradictory. But, you live in a free country that lets you believe what you want. So do I. >>> Jesus' death and the shedding of His blood permanently *washed* away >>> all human sin. >>> Note the different words I used: *cover*, which is temporary and why >>> Jews had to make yearly sacrifices, and *washed* which is permanent. >>> The Law is now fulfilled, and now all that is left is for man to >>> believe. >>> That, at least, is the way I was taught it by the Assemblies of God. >>>> I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that they >>>> so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people that seem >>>> to do well on Sunday and forget about the rest of the week. >>>> Is it a turn the other cheek world we live in or is the eye for an eye >>>> world? >> So which world do you think we live in? > > In a hypocritical world. > > And I believe that a little hypocrisy is a good thing, and needed > for the smooth functioning of society. > Yes, it is a hypocritical world, and it seems that many in power are hypocrites. The idea being: company president says to Preiest, "You keep them stupid and I will keep them poor" Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQvsjiXBCVWpc5J4RAodmAJ40FhHBcxCcbd9zbcwO1RqxskDB+wCeJ9Rd 4tC8nJ+x/kQxuXFExcMcCpY= =PBT/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
