Woodruff wrote:2dimes wrote:You're concerned that I'm going to sully the reputation of a book by cherry picking a complete sentance. Why don't you do that for us with the bible. I double dog dare you. Go on, find any complete sentance that tells a christian to kill everyone that won't convert, because as you say they are just like each other.
If the Bible is so direct, clear, lacking in vagueness and unimaginably unable to be taken out of context, then how is it that it keeps getting taken out of context and there are so many arguments over it's meaning, I wonder?
Same way the other book is supposed to contain a message of perfect love. I allready accused you of not having read them but yeah, that's pretty mysterious.
Typically it's out of fear, check out this unsourced quote. The guy here was actually with Yeshua when he was being arrested.
And behold, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew out his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
"Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
So here's a guy that's been hanging out with him for months. He's watched things like, feeding thousands of people with a few loaves and fish, making blind people see and serious physical problems dissapear. Dude is about to get arrested like he's been talking about for weeks and his pal whips out a sword. He says, "Put it away man, or don't you think God can handle this?" At that point the guy's got to be thinking, "Huh? You said they're going to kill you. Don't you want to make a break for it? Let's go teach in those temples back in the towns where they liked you."
I must admit I missed a word in this bit.
It's wonderfull that you can tell the youth the truth about the bible instead of teaching them to read it for themselves. Then they can have the same advantage as you. It's bad to show people actual unsourced quotes from a book instead of just telling them third hand fallsities that claim they are the same thing.
The word is "here" it should be right after "youth" and without it the statment looks like I meant you're at school teaching antibible class. Therefore I ruined the context and this was fair.
Woodruff wrote:I can "Tell the youth the truth about the Bible"? You do realize that I teach in a public school, right? You do realize that it would be against the law for me to teach any student about any religion, right? You do realize that by using my statement about the Bible to say that it's frightening that I'm teaching children that you're making yourself look like an unrepentant, illogical, irrational, paranoid, raving, Bible-waving lunatic, right?
I'm actually a "repentant, illogical, irrational, paranoid, raving, Bible-waving lunatic."
My concern is you remind me of the teachers that taught me spelling. I thought you might be teaching people english, history or reading comprehension. Hopefully you teach cooking or something. By the way I realize that littering, speeding and taking explosives on airplanes is "against the law." I'm glad that never happens. Thanks for clearing up how the world works for me.
So how's it going finding the call to kill you? It would be just as easy as showing you that the bible wants christians to love everyone wouldn't it?
