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

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 07:05:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fredric L.
Rice), Message ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
alt.atheism;

>usual suspect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Fredric L. Rice 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. 
>
>>Ezekiel was a prophet and often spoke in symbols. 
>
>He was a poet and a singer -- something of a Curt Cobaine of his time.
>To "prophecy" ment, at the time, to sing -- hence the magic when this
>same singer sang to a field of bones of dead warrior heros.
>
>>Consider the actual account:
>
>Instead of the words of Jesus Christ, the foundation upon which the 
>Christian religion rests?  Jesus specifically stated what it was that
>Sodom and Gomorra were destoryed for.  Jesus enumerate the "inequity"
>that justified and motivated their destruction.

Which means the Fanatics in the White House would be toast, if the Bible
and "Jesus" had any credibility.

>So you're going to ignore what your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was
>the reason why they were destroyed and pull something totally out of 
>context, cross out your Lord's words, and cut-and-paste over them:
>
>>      Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the
>>      city of Sodom-both young and old-surrounded the house. They
>>      called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring
>>      them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
>
>If you want to pretend that this was why Jesus ordered the cities to
>be destroyed -- contadicting what he says in Ezekiel -- you'll need to
>provide the verse.
>
>>      Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and
>>      said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have
>>      two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them
>>      out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do
>>      anything to these men, for they have come under the protection
>>      of my roof."
>
>Yes, that's certainly a good reason to execute _Lot_ and the rapists,
>yet once again, you get to provide verse reference which denies what
>Jesus said earlier.
>       
>>> Memorize it and stop pretending that Sodom had anything to do with
>>> homosexuality while you're at it.
>
>>No, let's get a NT version of events:
>
>No, let's trust what Jesus says was the reason why they were destroyed.
>
>After you return to Jesus, then we can examine your need to hate and
>engage in bigotry against fags.

He's merely following the 'example' "Jesus" set.

         

   
             Stoney
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