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Old 03-27-12, 08:11 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by razark View Post
Not by my standards either. I just wanted to make sure we could agree that there was something in the book that we could agree was morally wrong.
By our standards. I would not presume to judge the morals and motives of people long since dead.

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There's the slavery, and the genocide, stories of god directing conquest, and a few other things that I'm just not interested in hunting down right now.
So these passages you can't actually recall in any detail you assign them as much religious weight as the 10 Commandments? How about the pages and pages of "begats"? You believe that Noah for instance lived several centuries? If not then why do you believe the darker bible stories?
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