Posted on 11/10/2005 4:43:24 AM PST by Nicholas Conradin
Thought this would interest you:
“Further, he (the Pope) seems to be cautioning those who have been claiming Church endorsement of the full-bodied, design-defeating version of Darwin's theory of evolution, which, after all, is often little more than philosophical materialism applied to science,” added Chapman.
Chapman noted that in his very first homily as Pope, Benedict XVI had rebuked the idea that human beings are mere products of evolution, and that, like his predecessor, John Paul II, the new Pope has a long record of opposition to scientific materialism.
excerpt from: http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=3015&program=News&callingPage=discoMainPage
As a matter of principle, religious or otherwise, are you opposed to the idea of slavery?
The famous atheist Robert Ingersoll was an abolitionist.
Cite?
;->
Perhaps you have him mixed up with his father. His father, John Ingersoll, was a famous abolitionist. His Father was also a preacher, so I suspect that any abolitionist ideas he got came from his father's pulpit. I can't seem to find any abolitionist writings by Robert Ingersoll. Perhaps you have some?
God tells me that you're missing most of His message, and He wishes you'd cut it out.
The stone tablets are not in Exodus 20. Where does it say the stone tablets contain this text?
Didn't stop Cuozzo, Gish, Taylor, Dowden, et al.
another essay. Google gets a lot of hits
No, actually, it's right to the point. The point is that creationists/literalists/etc. actually pick and choose which parts of the Bible they want to actually adhere to, and which they're going to handwave away or ignore entirely. Most of the "God said it, that settles it" folks get awfully evasive when some of the less savory portions of the Bible are brought up for discussion. And most of the ones who don't hold positions (e.g. on slavery) that most conservatives would rightly find abhorrent.
What was spoken in Exodus 20 was placed on the tablets by the finger of God in Deuteronomy 9.
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. (Deu 9:10 KJV)
Do you accept the words of the 10 commandments?
Or are they just a bunch of hokey?
No pork?
Bummer ...
You'll pardon me if I don't accept a word that Madeline Murray O'Hair wrote. Hopefully you have better sources than that.
It is neither - it is just the simple, plain truth.
I guess kind of like these?
Exd 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
I guess.
Maybe you should start a thread.
So God disapproves of stealing other people's slaves too. Excellent.
How can I trust someone who only behaves because he is frightened of a God that I don't believe in? What if you guys get a crisis of faith?
I note the usual marxism from the creationist side in the rest of your response.
Exodus 21:16 actually refers to kidnapping.
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