Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Amused bemusement really......till the people who believe in fairy tales hand down judgement on the rest of based on those fairy tales......thats when I get angry.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Now I'm bemused ... what sort of judgement can a Bishop possibly exercise over those who don't believe? Surely if you think it's nonsense, what a Bishop says is completely irrelevant to you.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

But if the people who do believe take his word as gospel (excuse the pun), and then start treating "others" (as defined by the Bish) as evil/bad, then it does affect those who don't believe (and btw, I do).

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

It's the fact that he even says it that bothers me. Thats the kind of thinking that gets us bombed by religious nuts of other persuasions.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

But for people to do that, they would have to accept what the Bishop says about judgment on society, whilst ignoring what the Bishop says about forgiveness and new life in Jesus, loving your enemies, and so on.

The entirety of Christian theology is absolutely colossal. It's not reasonable to take one single statement by one of its teachers made on one particular day and then assume that people would, or should, act solely on that.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

M'eh, you're just living in the wrong bit ;)

Actually, this must mean that everyone on Nug Street are totally righteous, seeing as the river at one end didn't breach, and the clogged drains actually managed to deal with the water this time.

Anyone else want to bask in my glory :angel: :D

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

I can't speak for other religious persuasions. I can only speak for the Christian one, and whilst I know you're not a believer, I think you are sufficiently well-acquainted with the life and teachings of Jesus to know that he never, at any stage, advocated the use of force by his disciples to make a point. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

This Bishop apparently thinks that either he is qualified to comment on God's intentions and thoughts when it comes to happenings in daily life (which I would imagine religious people would find extremely arrogant; I'd be interested to hear what you think of this), or thinks he can use his religion to comment on how other people lead their life, which I find extremely arrogant and patronising.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Luke 19:27

But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay before me.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Well, it HAS only been about 2 weeks since the last religion-bashing thread :dozey:

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Shouldn't that be '...I should rain over them...' ;)

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Nugget, I think you may have a point there!!

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Which begs the question of who started this. I think there is a case to be made for saying the bishop did.

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Now now - we'll have no bishop bashing on this forum :disturbd:

Re: Floods are a judgement on society, say bishops
 

Russ, I am not trying to bash religion (as I am a practitioner), just one person's reported comments, using his position within a religion to give those comments added weight.