Re: Sodom destroyed for being Republican (Was Boycott CBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"Fredric L. Rice" wrote:

> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Fredric L. Rice wrote:
> >> "Rich Wellner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:23:21 +0000, William Cook wrote:
> >>>>Liberals are not open minded.  Neither are your breed of conservatives.
> >>>>Both are about equally closed minded, and equally dishonest.
> >>>Liberals are, by definition, open minded.
> >>>From the OED:
> >>>4. a. Free from narrow prejudice; open-minded, candid.
> >>>Just because Rush is illiterate and uses the wrong word when he means
> >>>leftist doesn't mean the rest of us must.
> >> If one reads the Christanic mythologies and the story of the destruction of
> >> Soddom, the _reason_ why it and its sister city was destroyed was because
> >> the people of the cities were not liberals.  Their inequity in not being of
> >> a liberal heart was what caused their desert death gods to destroy them.
>
> >That's a totally revisionist reading, designed to make
> >the "facts" fit your beliefs.
>
> Ezekiel 16:48-49 buddy, straight from the mouth of one of the more
> important Christian gods.  Need I quote the section for you?  Yeah,
> probably:
>
>     Ezekiel 16 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign
>     LORD , your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what
>     you and your daughters have done.
>
>     Ezekiel 16 49 " 'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She
>     and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they
>     did not help the poor and needy.
>
> Memorize it and stop pretending that Sodom had anything to do with
> homosexuality while you're at it.

Here is the RSV translation, with verse 50 to tie things up nicely.

[49] Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had
pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
[50] They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed
them, when I saw it.

(Putting aside the question of what was so distracting an omnipotent, omnipresent
deity that He was caught by surprise by Sodom's sins.)
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