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   From: remove_ajwerner@optusnet.com.au   
      
   "Joe Bruno"  wrote in message   
   news:42cbebb7-784f-411b-908b-aa707fa38605@r28g2000prb.googlegroups.com   
   > On Jul 22, 2:47 pm, "Andrew W"    
   > wrote:   
   >> "Answer_42"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:96b6f852-e2ff-4c76-849b-535333c1ba5e@y24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com   
   >>   
   >>> On Jul 21, 7:46 am, Joe Bruno  wrote:   
   >>>> On Jul 21, 2:37 am, old man joe  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> The Bible is not a science book and was never intended to be a   
   >>>> science book.   
   >>>> It's a book of moral lessons.   
   >>   
   >>> And a bad one at that.   
   >   
   > EH?   
   >>   
   >> Yep. Its badly outdated.   
   >> It was for and by another culture long ago when things were very   
   >> different.   
   >   
   > Really? How are the Ten Commandments "outdated"?   
   >   
      
   The Ten Commandments is just a very small part of the Bible.   
      
   >   
   > Here's a few of them:   
   >   
   > Thou shalt not steal   
   > Thou shalt not commit adultery   
   >   
      
   We already have more comprehensive laws than those in our modern laws.   
      
   >   
   > Honor thy Father and thy Mother   
   >   
      
   That's a societal guideline that adults usually teach their children.   
   Do you still need to be told to honour your father and mother?   
   I hope not.   
      
   Other cultures simply say respect your elders.   
      
   >   
   > Thou shalt not murder(that's how the original Hebrew read-   
   > Jewish law permits killing in war and capital punishment)   
   >   
      
   We have more comprehensive laws now.   
   We don't need the Bible any more.   
      
   >   
   > Thou shalt not bow down to graven images   
   >   
      
   How does that help us?   
   People today have the right to bow to whatever they want as long as they   
   don't hurt anyone.   
   I'm sure you believe in freedom of religion.   
   How is that so called law going to disband all the thousands of religions in   
   this world that worship graven images?   
   And what's the point of it anyway?   
      
   And how do we define exactly what a graven image is against what is merely a   
   reminder to make us mindful of someone like a photo?   
   Do you have a photo in your wallet or picture on your night stand?   
      
   >   
   > Thou shalt not swear a false oath(lying under oath)   
   >   
      
   Our courts take care of that one.   
      
   >   
   > I am the Lord Thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me   
   > (The Christian claim that Jesus is divine sort of ignores this one,   
   > but they get around it with their trinity game-saying jesus and god   
   > and jesus ghost are all one person-Jews don't buy it but what the   
   > hell- it's their religion)   
   >   
   > Sounds like good rules to me.   
   >   
      
   That last one cannot be followed any more at all because it was given when   
   God supposedly walked among us.   
   With all the religions and their gods now, that one is now totally useless.   
      
   The Bible is not much use to us any more.   
   Go on Amazon and search for books on God, spirituality and morality.   
   There's some really good ones.   
   You'll learn far more about God and morality there than from the Bible.   
      
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   Every theist is an atheist when it comes to everyone else's gods.   
   Education cures religious fundamentalism.   
      
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