Momma Angel wrote:Again, the laws that changed in the Old Testament were the ritual and hygiene laws. Not the Ten Commandments, etc., but the ritual and hygience laws were done away with. The only one of the Ten Commandments not repeated in the New Testament is the one about keeping the Sabbath.
First, as you've never tried to make that point with me before, you have no business prefacing your remarks with "again." Second, when i have told you that the god of the old testament is childish, capricious, vengeful, murderously violent, racist and sexist, you have responded with your new covenant mantra. If the new covenant only refers to laws governing ritualistic behavior in a narrow range, you were contradicting yourself to have tried to exculpate your version of god by citing a new covenant.
Quote:Fair enough. But, the only laws done away with by the New Testament are the ritual and hygiene laws.
See my remarks above--you have consistently cited a new covenant when taxed with the character flaws of the god of the old testament--that was convenient to your thesis then. Now, when it is convenient to your anti-homosexual thesis, you claim that the only laws dispensed with are ritualistic laws. You contradict yourself over time, even if it is not apparent in these exchanges of posts.
If, as you say, then, the new covenant only refers to ritualistic procedure, you're still stuck with a god who is puerile, vengeful, murderously violent, racist and sexist. In which case, your deity is a hypocrit with no moral authority.
Quote:Perhaps prejudice was the incorrect word. God hates sin.
Religious people spend a lot of time telling us what god hates. I am reminded of Bishop Burnet, later Archbishop of Canturbury (and therefore spiritual head of the Church of England) who was the confessor of King Charles II, and the principle source on the day to day life of that King and his court. He once wrote to a friend, and remarked that "the King has an odd notion of God's love." He then quoted King Charles as saying: "The only things which God hates are that we be evil and that we design mischief." Bishop Burnet called that an odd notion of god's love because the good Bishop very likely had a long laundry list of things god hates, being a man of his times and his religion in every respect.
There is, of course, the ludicrous aspect of talking about "sin," and that god hates sin--given that many sins are products of quite natural behavior, and therefore a direct product of what the alleged deity has created. Gluttony, sloth, envy, lust . . . and a host of other "sins" have quite natural origins in a species which intends to reproduce and dominate its environment. It all rather reads as though this goofy deity sets up the human race for a fall, and then says: "See, i told y'all you were sinful--but i hate the sin, not the sinner, so get down on your knees and beg for my benevolent forgiveness and i'll let you spend eternity telling me what a swell guy i truly am." What a comic book character!
Quote:My small attempt at humor.
Given that gay bashing has killed people, and that i personally know a man who was blinded for life in one eye as a result of a gay-bashing incident, it is not something which i am likely to construe as humorous.
My small attempt at humor. Forgive me. No, you have never accused me of that.
