Source (Bluesky)
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FFRF:
Here’s how pliable bible-based “morality” is: she swerved right past “thou shalt not kill” and found a verse to justify killing someone for defying authority.
If your ethics can be weaponized that easily, it’s not morality.
Megan Basham:
To those invoking Christianity in this current controversy over the shooting in Minnesota, it is important to remember that our God is a God of order. And he requires submission to all legal authorities.
Romans 13: “For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong.”
Biblically, what Renée Good was doing was actually a sin. She was breaking the law. She was defying legal authority that was justly being carried out.
I’m sad about what happened to her. It’s tragic. But as a Christian, I can reflect that this is why Romans 13 wisely tells us to obey the authorities. It is for our safety and good.
Oh, that’s the tone we’re taking?
I’m pretty sure you don’t understand that translation requires an intimate knowledge on the context of the language at the time. Imagine someone a hundred years from now trying to translate “that’s cool, no cap”. They’d translate it about a frigid lack of hats.
The drift from the original text is massive, simply because of lingual drift. Let alone the fact that the books weren’t written until way after the supposed events, and were then stripped by a group of theologians who decided some texts weren’t correct enough.
Yes.
Because you just shat all over entire teams of individuals who have decades of experience, and doctorates (plural, frequently) in the subject.
But I’m sure you know better than they.