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Originally Posted by Chris T
If you know the Bible well enough to pick a verse out of the air like that, I'm surprised you're unable to distinguish between passages devoted to instructing disciples for daily life, and passages that talk about a final punishment that is, incidentally, to be meted out by God, not by his followers.
Unless you are very well aware of that distinction and are trying to make mischief? Shurley not ...  |
I'm not attempting to "make mischief" as you put it.
I was merely using this as an analogy as to how violence on the part of fundamentalists can be arrived at, and indeed encouraged, by religious teachings.
Let's just assume I don't know the bible
at all and I'm asking you, notwithstanding the fact that the instruction itself is clear - irrespective of the frequency of the act or the party on whose behalf any such actions are instructed to be carried out on - what part of Jesus's "non-violent" preachings that particular instruction fits.