pmoseman
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No, I am not a Christian but I do read the bible only because people do not bother reading the bible and rely on shared beliefs and bullshit excuses instead of the written word.Are you not Christian pmoseman (thought you were)? And if you are, does it not say in the Bible that it's a sin to kill?
Our women need to be protected, as they are physically weaker on average than men.
IMO, physical abuse or murder of women by men is especially heinous.
My mother was repeatedly abused by her father, helpless to stop him. For a long time, he'd come home violently drunk, only to beat her up for no reason - many times she had to be hospitalized due to the injuries she sustained. She did nothing to deserve that sort of treatment. And as a result, she suffers from severe PTSD.
It is a sin to kill, sure, except of course for the most obvious reasons: like for food, or when it is required by law that you should rip the bellies of pregnant women or stone sorceresses, and maul whores, sacrifice your kin, and so on. Obviously, not killing would not apply when it is necessary in the eyes of the Lord, or when someone disagrees with you, or they are foreigners, etcetera.
After reading the rest of the Bible this command so obviously does not apply universally there is no reason for it to even be mentioned. They certainly would have said more than four words about it if it was a big deal. The solution was to kill and punish people for killing and punishing people, eye foot and hand for eye foot and hand, and then some.
You would think Jesus would condemn it all, but he doesn't. He still wants to follow the law, beat slaves, kill children, and spends lengthy bits of the bible verses threatening and damning those who would not submit to his commands, and had others carry out the dirty work while "forgiving" anyone who was willing to buy in the sin of being born.
It is provable fact that violence is dumb. Sorry for your mother and yourself. In the bible your granddad would pay some fine a priest set for him and if you or your mother disagreed with that judgement you would be killed.
Naturally, parts of the bible are very good and reasonable advice, redacting the violence, but that is only every so often and you can't ignore that you will burn forever for slight offenses and be horribly tortured and killed in real life for things like blasphemy.
But I am not an atheist for anything to do with that. I know God is make believe. There is nothing wrong with being an atheist, whatsoever, and I feel relieved to know none of it is true, because the beliefs based on biblical text alone are horribly wrong and misguided and you can still be a good person without worrying about your own faith or thinking everyone is going to Hell for not believing with you.
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