El_Mariachi64

stop being a coward and answer the question Jayhawker Soule

Maximus

Shoot myself.

Geshtinnanna

And leave your kid without a parent? Aren't you bright.

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Gettin' In Tune

God condoned it. Are you that bright?

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Geshtinnanna

I don't believe in God so it makes no sense. To protect your child by leaving it without you isn't bright. That's a fact.

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El_Mariachi64

I think Maximus was just exaggerating in a sarcastic manner. I think the point is he'd rather shoot himself than kill a kid.

Probability_Amplitude

You missed my one as well.

The story of abraham and his son is a metaphor for submitting yourself to God's will. Since when did people take biblical stories (or Jane Austen's novels) literally?

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El_Mariachi64

You gotta be joking me. People take the bible literally all the time. Hell, people take all sorts of holy books literally all the time. Suicide bombers? hello?

And if you want to crack your noodle, if your gonna start picking and choosing which passages are to be taken literally and others not, how do you choose which is which? where do you draw the line? If its okay for some things to not be taken literally, then isn't the entire book eligible to be read that way? Should you take creationism literally? A lot of people do. How do you choose?

Or better yet, what kind of authority do you think you are to say which passages are to be taken literally and which not?

Geshtinnanna

Ahh gotcha. My mistake for not seeing the sarcasm. I think I would more than likely shoot a kid than shoot myself. I don't like children.

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niranjan

You have to go through me first,before you shoot a kid, geshty...

Kids are fun, really. I have great fun with my kid brother and kid friends.

Kids are my heroes.

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---Krishna ( Bhagavad Gita )


“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

---Buddha


The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

---Thomas Paine