Soren wrote on Sep 16
th, 2014 at 11:03pm:
The Bible is not the eternal, unalterable word of Allah.
That is why both Judaism and Christianity have been undergoing reforms and reformations-christianity being the first reformation of Judaism.
And so no one adheres to the archaic punishments in the OT, and no-one is agitating for the return to the norms and values of 600 BC or 50 AD Judea. No-one.
You’ve never listened to the sermons of Kenneth Copeland or any of the hundreds of fire and brimstone preachers in the Deep South?
Many have called for followers of Islam to be culled like serpents - many believe they
are serpents, or similar incarnate creatures from the Book of Revelation. Many have heralded new crusades - a prelude to the End Times. "By any means necessary" is the Goebels-style hyperbole often thrown about in US primte-time TV- rhetoric that made it possible for the US Justice Department to attempt to redraft its laws on torture only 9 short years ago.
Many in the US are agitating for a return to the so-called "purity" of the early church - norms and values completely incongruent with the theme park version of religion they follow, but nevertheless espouse.
I’m not even talking about the cults like the Westboro Baptist Church, but mainstream "old-style" religion. The US had to stop its soldiers in the last Gulf war taking body parts as souveniers, and yes, quite a few photos were taken of US Marines holding up decapitated Iraqi heads.
I’m no longer surprised that someone who espouses an ever-shifting world-view of always absolutely never ever EVER would forget the last decade of world events. It’s not even history yet, but it comes as no great shock that you’d ignore recent current affairs as much as you ignore the Bible.
Your willful ignorance is so mindnumbingly creative, I’ve given up trying to follow it all.
You’re simply the old boy. You always were, and you always will be. Always, absolutely, never ever.