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Originally Posted by Tophat665
When you start pulling the rules for 7000 year old desert dwellers into the argument, then you have no argument. However, let's try the following: What part of "Thou shalt not kill," do you not understand? How about "What is done to the least among you is done to me," or "thou hypocrite, first attend to the beam in thine own eye."
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Let me advise you to read my posts before replying so harshly.
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Originally Posted by Phage
05-16-2005, 01:50 AM
I think you would be hard pressed to give a reason for the act of killing another person being morally wrong without resorting to religion. You mentioned "negative karma", but of course there are many people who would not consider that a valid argument.
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If you will notice, right here I am pointing out how judging the death penalty to be immoral is difficult without resorting to religion, and that religion is a very poor platform to argue from because not everyone believes the same religion. Later on...
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
05-16-2005, 09:53 AM
my confession is that i believe Jesus to be the Christ....
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And I respond...
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Originally Posted by Phage
05-16-2005, 11:06 AM
I was trying to avoid this...
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...to an already weak position based on religion pointing out how there is scripture contradicting him. As you say, "When you start pulling the rules for 7000 year old desert dwellers into the argument, then you have no argument," except that you neglect to notice that I already said that.
Futhermore, your quote of "Thou shalt not kill" was addressed be me
two days ago, on
05-14-2005, 08:59 PM. You did not think through "What is done to the least among you is done to me," because if you will look at Genesis 9:6 (quoted in my above posts) you will see that it says the same thing but goes on to specify the punishment and who would deal it out. Yep, the punishment is death and
man will do it.
RTFT!