Suppose they had the means, though. — Moliere
And suppose it'd been an 80 year occupation. — Moliere
Because that government has been attacking you in the exact same way, and old cynical men know the piss and vinegar of young men and convince them to in order to get a bargaining chip. — Moliere
The part that makes me hesitate here is that there were also immediate reports about finding hundreds of beheaded babies.
And then learning that Israeli attack helicopters shot on Israelis.
Sometimes states just say shit to demonize someone they want to kill.
I fear that's part of what's going on. — Moliere
This strikes me as backwards.
One can only give aid to the suffering, but if you dare try to resist the movement of weapons to actually prevent the genocide we will take away your privilege of being here.
What about the students who are citizens that put up a similar resistance? Ought we to deport them too? — Moliere
Get over yourselves already, and stop this childish posturing as 'crusaders against fascism' - it's embarassing, and, as we see with the Kirk assassination, potentially dangerous. — Tzeentch
So all this talk about what the Kirk assassination really means - what I think it really is, is a pretext for Trump and the MAGA cabal to drive their 'second American revolution' ever harder. — Wayfarer
Pete Hegseth, the former Fox weekend anchor serving as Donald Trump’s defense secretary, has ordered Pentagon officials to scour social media for comments by service members that make light of Charlie Kirk’s death and punish anyone expressing dissident views, NBC News reports. — The Guardian
So in this case it is to be debated who exactly is obsessed with beauty, a whole culture, how other culture's compare etc. — boethius
the more the interactions you do have are surface level and where your appearance has a disproportionate effect. — boethius
Anyone who speaks can be accused of speaking too loudly. Anyone who eats can be accused of gluttony. Anyone alive, or dead for that matter, can be accused of murder; doesn't imply everyone is a murderer or then no one's a murder, but the merits of each case require consideration.
But how is it inerrant if the author's are untrustworthy and give false information?
Maybe it is Divinely Inspired that way, but, at a minimum, that doesn't seem to cohere with God's nature. Don't you think? — Bob Ross
Nonetheless, this reading seems to be a stretch. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Right. I think there are cases where religious discussion can be quite fruitful:
Interreligious dialogue between contrasting religious approaches — Leontiskos
It seems like, then, that aspect of the scripture was not Divinely Inspired. — Bob Ross
Is your position, then, that Samual lied about God commanding the slaughter of all the Amalekites? — Bob Ross
For example, there is a constant vacillation in the Bible between the idea that everything is according to God's will (and therefore even evil things are brought about by God), and the idea that God does not do or will evil. I think that's a natural vacillation that can't be overcome easily or quickly, and the sacred texts inevitably reflect this reality. — Leontiskos
On one reading it would superficially reinterpret the text. On the reading that ↪BitconnectCarlos provided it would not. The sort of question here asks whether we are permitted to interpret these sorts of post-Pentateuch texts as including the perspective of a fallible author, such as Samuel. — Leontiskos
Interpret the text to be talking about indirect intention, and adjust one's interpretive hermeneutic (to deviate from the literal meaning).
Hold that life and death are in God's hands, that for God to kill is not murder, and that God can temporarily delegate this power.
Hold that the Amalekites were demons and demons can be justly killed (see Hanover's post).
Hold to some form of group morality rather than a strict individual morality.
Hold to a pedagogical approach on the part of God. — Leontiskos
murder is the direct intentional killing of an innocent person — Bob Ross
Note that when I spoke about the possibility of being pushed away from the OT, I was prescinding from the question of Christianity. — Leontiskos
Or perhaps such an argument must push us away from the Old Testament altogether. That's possible. I am not there myself, but I do know some people who take such routes. — Leontiskos
Things are not good merely because God wills them: God has to will them in a way that is good because He is goodness itself—His nature is perfectly good. — Bob Ross
The Talmud is considered as authoritive as the Torah, and it is interpreted by the rabbis. That is, there is an entire legal system devised around these writings, largely given meaning by the rabbis. — Hanover