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Top Answer out of 17 by weareallhypocrites on May 14, 2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
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weareallhypocrites May, 14 2009 at 12:49 PM
The exact same christians today would have argued passionately that slavery was right and that witches should be tortured and burned just a couple hundred years ago based off the exact same book. A book that is so capable of being interpreted in such extreme ways ifs obviously open to so much interpretation that consensus will never be obtained and it will continue to be cherrypicked and "re-interpreted" to suite the needs of those in power at the moment
amoeba1911 May, 15 2009 at 10:45 AM
The problem is when religious text is taken literally and used as a basis for law. Even the constitution of the United States written just a few hundred years ago is open to interpretation, a collection of moral stories written two thousand years ago by dozens of people assembled by hundreds, copied by thousands, the bible is SO open to interpretation that it might as well be a blank book where people just write whatever they want in its pages.
weareallhypocrites May, 15 2009 at 10:56 AM
yup
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Answer 3 out of 17 by alvaro on May 14, 2009 at 2:57 pm Permalink
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Answer 4 out of 17 by dumdum on May 14, 2009 at 2:55 pm Permalink
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Answer 5 out of 17 by schmee2369 on May 14, 2009 at 2:55 pm Permalink
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Answer 6 out of 17 by Chubbychaser84 on May 14, 2009 at 2:51 pm Permalink
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Answer 7 out of 17 by thatsJustme on May 14, 2009 at 12:13 pm Permalink
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Mr Fixit May, 15 2009 at 10:46 AM
No, as the Israelites were given a law too, although I don't know what different Jewish factions practice these days at all. Actually, I have no idea on what a Jewish person believes is right in this department.
weareallhypocrites May, 15 2009 at 10:57 AM
ok. thanks
Mr Fixit May, 15 2009 at 11:01 AM
No worries mate.
Answer 8 out of 17 by Thinker on May 14, 2009 at 10:52 am Permalink
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Answer 9 out of 17 by Blackberry. on May 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm Permalink
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Answer 10 out of 17 by Anonymous on May 15, 2009 at 10:32 am Permalink
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MisterKnowItAll May, 15 2009 at 10:49 AM
There is no commandment forbidding killing. It also made a nice pun, given the similar colloquialism.
Anonymous May, 15 2009 at 08:36 PM
The commandants might be a little clearer if they listed all the exceptions... but then they wouldn't have fit on the tablets. God does lots of killing... in the great flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife... And tells various biblical characters to kill: Abraham is told to kill his son, and Exodus states that anyone who doesn't observe the sabbath should be put to death. That's not so weird, modern laws work the same way. In general, don't kill other people, but it's ok if we hire you as a soldier and send you to war, it's ok if we hire you as a prison executioner, etc.
MisterKnowItAll May, 15 2009 at 10:43 PM
Killing isn't mentioned in the 10 Commandments!!! lol The Commandment is about murder, specifically (if you ever decide to read original copy instead of the Christianized version) premeditated acts of murder. See, not all languages are like English; in some, they might have 10 different words to describe different kinds of killing, but when we read it we just say "killing." That happens A LOT with Chinese, especially in medicine, as they have countless names for each kind of condition making it as specific of a diagnosis as possible. Anyway. The commandment is about premeditated murder, not killing; the exceptions are listed: hunting someone down to kill them = a no-no.
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