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You go a bit farther than he does. I believe he agrees with me, that everything in the Bible that's INTENDED to be literal is literal and true. The Bible, in addition to being scripture, is also literature, and as such, it makes use of literary devices such as metaphor, hyperbole, poetry...

It brings up the question, though, of why asjssl is upset...had his/her mother decided to abort for whatever reason, would it have been--according to asjssl--just a nonviable tissue mass? Or as OVM says, like killing a fish or something with fewer signs of life than mold on a crust of bread? So...

Yes, it was a perfect line, with perfect timing. Thanks, I'm here all week. Stop by my table in the lobby and pick up my latest CD.

The lengths to which people will go to avoid the truth...

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I hadn't brought up the issue of :censoredsign:gotry and homophobia, a concept invented to legitimize :censoredsign:gotry. As for the terms, we're fought that battle before. The end of it was when I said a fetus is a baby at a specified stage of development, and you said it wasn't. So I posted a dictionary...

That you believe that says more about you than religion.

You're demonstrating that you know less about contemporary religion than you let on. I suggest you look into R.C. Sproul, one of (just one of) the scholarly theologians that addresses questions ontologically.

Aborting the baby is much closer to the medieval practice. As horrible as rape and the subsequent birth are, nobody is put to death, unlike your scenario.

Once upon a time, in the 70s, there was a comedy television show called Saturday Night Live. Yes, like the Saturday Night Live of today, only funny. Like today's, but they actually put funny jokes in it. And that funny Saturday Night Live had a Weekend Update segment like they do today, but...

Not all. Many Christians say, "Yes, ask, raise questions, Question Authority, as the bumper sticker says. Ask, "How can we know this is true?" When you address those questions, your faith is stronger, not weaker.

The analogy doesn't hold, but to the degree it's true, then it's another brutality committed by the rapist, not to be taken out on the baby because he or she had a rapist for a father. There are places/times that was done, but I'm pretty sure we've advanced beyond that now.

Thank you.

I guess you were one that needed to have it explained. Didn't think you were in that group.

And by law, a black man in this country 200 years ago was--BY LAW--considered property (redundancy intentional for emphasis). Civil law is what 51% of a group of @$$clowns say it is, if another @$$clown writes his name on the bottom Debate is fun. But don't take it as license to be absurd...

that wasn't a personal attack. When i pointed out that i wasn't explaining the joke, i didn't think you'd be one to need it explained. And now the software has edited out my all-caps.

...different than they are currently defined, yes. But as they are currently defined IS the re-definition, just like Congress re-defines adult weapon to suit its agenda, just like Congress in the past redefined human and human rights, etc.

If that's the case, it's time for John Galt to shake off the parasites by letting the system crash. Close your doors, let your employees go, let the foul system collapse on itself while the useless eaters starve.

I doubt it's laziness. More likely cognitive ability. Or past laziness, like in school.