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How about a chapter on "How Not to Abuse Children"... NeoGreen Mar 2019 #1
Arguing that Bronze Age humans should have shared a 21st century viewpoint? guillaumeb Mar 2019 #2
... Major Nikon Mar 2019 #6
No, widening the focus. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #11
... Major Nikon Mar 2019 #18
Speaking of the tactic, what is it? guillaumeb Mar 2019 #45
... Major Nikon Mar 2019 #46
No, you misunderstand. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #47
... Major Nikon Mar 2019 #48
Easily refuted. But you are welcome to continue. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #49
... Major Nikon Mar 2019 #50
"This definition implicitly requires an intent to divert." trotsky Mar 2019 #54
Read the sentences. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #55
I did. "Intent" does not appear in them. trotsky Mar 2019 #56
Missing the point 101 guillaumeb Mar 2019 #58
"Intent" does not appear. trotsky Mar 2019 #60
Not how I took it hurl Mar 2019 #8
But that argues for divine interference, guillaumeb Mar 2019 #12
Doesn't it diminish human will to inspire men to write a book marylandblue Mar 2019 #21
Well that depends! hurl Mar 2019 #23
You mean like the divine interference that you think is OK when it serves your agenda? trotsky Mar 2019 #35
Orwell called this phenomena 'doublethink' Major Nikon Mar 2019 #40
That really has nothing to do wth this point. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #43
Thank you for confirming your double standard. n/t trotsky Mar 2019 #44
You just don't understand the Bible. Mariana Mar 2019 #14
Uh, were they not humans then, too? MineralMan Mar 2019 #10
Expecting Bronze Age people to have similar social attitudes as 21st century humans sounds unrealist guillaumeb Mar 2019 #13
The nature of Homo sapiens was the same then MineralMan Mar 2019 #15
And the patriarchy in other countries allowed it. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #16
Whataboutthat? MineralMan Mar 2019 #17
Divisions among the patriarchs? eom guillaumeb Mar 2019 #19
I can insist that a book said to be inspired by God marylandblue Mar 2019 #24
Yes, you can insist that, but we both know that in spite of great sounding rhetoric, guillaumeb Mar 2019 #42
Expecting Bronze Age people to respect each other was unrealistic? trotsky Mar 2019 #36
You just don't understand Major Nikon Mar 2019 #20
Thanks. I am so stupid! MineralMan Mar 2019 #22
Worried atheism is becoming more like religion? Lordquinton Mar 2019 #25
Arguing that people who were allegedly inspired by a god should have been more enlightened. trotsky Mar 2019 #33
No edhopper Mar 2019 #37
You mean "Bronze Age humans in regular contact with a timeless omniscient omnibenevolent deity" Act_of_Reparation Mar 2019 #39
Kinda funny to argue that Jesus (God!) didn't know any better... ExciteBike66 Mar 2019 #52
How did Jesus treat His female disciples? eom guillaumeb Mar 2019 #53
Trick question! He only chose MEN to be disciples! trotsky Mar 2019 #57
Mary and Mary were the most prominent of Jesus' female disciples. guillaumeb Mar 2019 #59
Ah yes, a TV show proves your point. trotsky Mar 2019 #61
A TV show that depicts an unsupported hypothesis about the MineralMan Mar 2019 #62
Clearly, the Inspirer had other priorities. nt. Mariana Mar 2019 #3
Well, I would guess that that's the last thing they wanted FiveGoodMen Mar 2019 #4
Yeah, kinda funny how that works Major Nikon Mar 2019 #5
"none of this really matters because some atheists in Boston were mean to a Trump supporter." trotsky Mar 2019 #34
Man created God to control woman. CrispyQ Mar 2019 #7
I guess God never got over that MineralMan Mar 2019 #9
Maybe some did, but the political leaders that wanted to use religion to control the masses OhioBlue Mar 2019 #26
Because men wrote the Bible. Straight, white men most likely. Liberty Belle Mar 2019 #27
Maybe not all that white - possibly Middle-Eastern and Egyptian authors. I don't see how skin color Doodley Mar 2019 #30
Depending on the version Lordquinton Mar 2019 #31
Jesus took a stab at it by preventing stoning of the woman MaryMagdaline Mar 2019 #28
On the other hand, he said he wasn't there to change the Law Mariana Mar 2019 #41
Yes but we knew he was triangulating MaryMagdaline Mar 2019 #51
Read somewhere that several of the books rejected for the New Testament cannon Jake Stern Mar 2019 #29
Right. It is not that the books weren't written, it is that they were excluded from the Canon. Midnight Writer Mar 2019 #32
If God did not approve of those things edhopper Mar 2019 #38
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