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Originally posted by tobster1911
The above shows that you really have this unbelievable urge to view Christians as somehow less intelligent, enlightened, modern, or whatever than yourself.
You go on and on about primitive blah blah. I ask you this, would you consider the time period of Einstein more or less primitive than now? I am sure you do not consider him "less intelligent". Why do you have such a bigotry toward people that lived in the past? You feel that you are somehow better or more intelligent because you drive a car? I suppose you feel superior to the dirt poor guy in Africa who barely has a sharp stick to his name?
Again, why do people feel that Christians are the intolerant ones.
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Look, I do not view Christians as less enlightened than myself. But there are Christians and Christians just like there are Muslims and Muslims. I am only intolerant of deliberate and dangerous ignorance.
The old testament was put together in an extraordinarily haphazard fashion from rumours, various second and third hand stories, gossip, accepted wisdom, superstition, anecdotal morality tales, and a bit of history - to the extent there actually was recorded history at the time. It was written in various languages that have been more or less successfully translated - a subject about there is much debate. It has no one coherent source - that much is clear. It is internally inconsistent to the point where anyone at all can interpret anything at all into it. It is brutal and primitive because it was born of brutal and primitive times. It is full of tales of extraordinary violence, rape, incest, fraticide, infanticide and bestiality.
But you want to look to this very dodgy source to decide for yourself, absolutely and for all purposes, whether it is OK for your pal to play the pink oboe, or your daughter to sip from the furry cup - or not??? THIS is the basis of YOUR moral judgement about someone elses sexual proclivities that are as much your business as that person's taste in pizza (as someone here pointed out)???
You may as well read tea leaves or sheep's entrails.
Yes, this is the kind of deliberate ignorance of which am intolerant.