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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (3916)4/28/2010 11:54:08 AM
From: Solon1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"Now you will damn him for what you say you fail to find in his teachings. Did he speak of every example of human sin? Then he must have been indifferent, perhaps even immoral.

Let me help you out: There's no passage where he tells people not to beat little children, therefore beating little children was okay with him. There's a new argument for you."

You are trivializing the brutal and entirely inhuman institution of slavery--undoubtedly the most vile immorality that has sullied the hands and hearts of humanity since we first crawled out of the oceans. The contemptible and inhuman institution of slavery is not some trivial "every example of human sin". One would expect a great deal more than tacit support (or a great deal less) from a decent person whether that person was a moral guide or just a useless wanderer with nothing important to say.

Jesus DOES speak about slavery. He counsels the slave to remain a slave. When he speaks to a gentile (to cover some more of your post) he only consents to heal her child when she admits that her race is like a dog begging for crumbs. In both slavery and racial value Jesus COULD have demonstrated moral guidelines. Instead he gives tacit support to the brutal policy of enslaving human beings. Then Paul goes on to confirm that policy...and after 2000 MORE years of torture, abuse, and brutal enslavement and inhumanity) 92,000,000 more people lose their lives in a bloody war to do the right thing.

I'm sorry...telling me that this supposed paragon of moral perfection and godly qualities was busy with other matters just doesn't cut it. He took the time to say many times to Honor your parents (although he never did himself and had real contempt for families)--but he had no time to say that slavery was inhuman and must be stopped??

But time to turn over the tables of the "evil" money changers. OH, YES! And time to throw a fit of pique at a fig tree. OH, YES!

You are right. As a moral guide he had NOTHING to offer. As a person of common decency he had NOTHING to offer. "Not of this world"?? Yeah...that sounds about right, too...
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