@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Quote:Really. I must have missed that. When did he do it?
When HE SURE DID DEFEAT IT. Which His message does do.
Really?
His message was that he was not on Earth to change The Law...not one word of it; not one letter of it; not one stroke of one letter of it.
Part of the law is that slavery was acceptable.
He did nothing to defeat it...in fact, the American South used the Bible and the supposed words of Jesus to justify slavery.
Quote:But that is something you daren't accept because your position, which is ridiculous for a few other reasons as well, falls to the ground in a heap of dust.
Don't you wish! Still trying to fight in a thread you consider fatuous. My, my!
Quote:The inward feelings of Jesus are inaccessible to us now. And especially to someone whose ignorance on the subject can only be matched by his arrogance.
You shouldn't get on yourself like that, Spendius. I'm not a fan of yours, but even I wouldn't say that about you.
Quote:Slavery was Caesar's domain. Jesus was God's agent, or evolution's agent, to try to correct the unholy mess that the human race was at the time. Maybe still is.
Spoken like a true atheist! Christ this stuff cannot get any funnier.
Quote:God was ashamed of what He had created. Or, if you prefer, because evolution has no capacity to be ashamed of itself Jesus, who understood evolution on a level Darwin couldn't conceive, became its spokesperson and died a ghastly death for his trouble.
Yeah...but he never condemned slavery.
Quote:You probably whinge when your boiled eggs ate too soft for your liking. How you dare attempt to smear Jesus is incomprehensible to me.
I'm a big fan of Jesus. I have never tried to smear him...and I never will.
I am asking a question:
Why do you suppose Jesus never condemned slavery?
Quote:Let's see you smear the Founding Fathers for encouraging slavery of the kind we know something about. Something a bit riskier than smearing a long dead historical figure of the highest importance.
They suck for not having done away with slavery...but they were far from being silent on the issue. They simply took the pragmatic route to unification.
They were not silent on the issue.
You advising anyone to man up...is beyond hilarity.
Quote:It seems to me that those who are sympathetic to your smear are the same ones who have most faith in the Founding Fathers. It is they who use the Constitution to underpin their arguments.
I am not smearing Jesus...just asking a question. You are going ape!
Quote:Why did you single out Jesus? His message is that of any intelligent child as he comes to know more about the fucked up world he is inheriting and feels it to be alien.
Because I was interested in why people suppose Jesus did not condemn slavery...not why Joe Schulz of Virginia did not.
Jeez!
When you gonna wise up and stop digging, Spendius?