where??? commandment is thou shalt not kill
There's no such commandment.
There is a commandment that says "
You shall not murder."
However, the Egyptians created that, the Hebrews just borrowed it.
You're ignorant of the fact that the Hebrew language is connotial. Words have both meanings and connotations.
Hebrew had three verbs meaning "to take a life" but each had a different connotation. The verb used for slay connotes taking a life based on authority, for example, David slew Goliath.
The verb "to kill" connotes taking a life through accident or negligence. Had you bothered to read the other commandments, you would know that the punishment for killing was compensating the widow, children or family of the individual killed.
The verb "to murder" connotes taking a life with premeditation, with malice aforethought and for personal profit, gain or benefit and the punishment the Hebrews levied was death.
Serious christians don't read the King Joke Vision, they read the actual Hebrew texts, like the BHS.
so what? how many billions got killed because scientist doctors were too damn stupid to cure disease? See how easily you are defeated?
You're equating virus and bacteria to witchcraft?
How bizarre.
so what??? You are talking about 1000's of years ago. We were Romans who slowly adopted Christianity at a time when people routinely slaughtered each other. Do you understand now??
I understand christians routinely slaughtered anyone who refuse to convert, and more than that, routinely slaughtered anyone who didn't subscribe 100% to the mythological belief system created by the Imperial Roman Catholic Church.
You think the 3,000 people killed on 9-11 was an atrocity, and yet christians murdered 42,000 other christians in a single day, because their beliefs were just slightly different than that of the Imperial Roman Catholic Church.
backwards of course. the reason he recognized it was because it became clear it was not going to die out.
That's not why he recognized it, but keep deluding yourself just the same.
??? BS of course. Western Civ. has not supported religion for 100's of years, and people obviously still need a religion or philosophy to give meaning to their lives. Do you understand?
Wrong. Governments have supported religion for the last 1,200 years.
The Greeks and Romans moved away from the silly idea of rule by "divine right" but thanks to christianity, we have rule by "divine right" foisted upon Western Civilization, which barred the creation of democratic republics for centuries.
Is your god so stupid he doesn't understand democracy?
What kind of benevolent being would impose "divine right" on people?
Not only did "divine right" create kingship, it also created the class of greater and lesser nobles who did not love their brothers, rather they brutally lorded over them for centuries.
If your government did not support christianity, then why was school prayer compulsory until the early 1960s?
