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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (2967)	10/30/2000 11:25:28 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<<Very few people have any idea what Jesus advocated.>> We know a few things, I think. Like, wasn't he quite unenthusiastic about washing one's hands before eating? Or were disease-carrying germs just not a concern of his, much like slavery? Didn't he also say that when you pray you should do it in a private room, not in public places, such as houses of worship? (I wonder if he excepted public schools from this proscription?) The churches, would, I dare say, have trouble recruiting if they honored Jesus's words and discontinued the organizing of public displays of piety, so even the most fundamentalist ones don't take these words as inerrant advocacy, I gather. Here's a quote from Matthew 5:17-19 in which Jesus himself tells you where to look for what he advocates: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law ["the law" means the first five books of the Bible] or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of the commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven..." So we do know many things Jesus advocated, don't we?-- for example, putting rebellious children to death. Here's another example, from Deuteronomy, 25:11: "If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue the husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity."