Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i tell what i read in the bible (doings of GOD not of the people):

burn the sinners -> sodom and gomorra
erase the unbeleavers -> the Flood, death of innocent first burn children, ...

The GOD in the old testament is an good exampe of a very good dictator. Efficient by enforcement of his will and brutal to all "opposition".

The Ten Commandments are as a matter of fact enlightened in this time (most of them in our times too). [/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Considering that there was a mob in sodom and gomorra gathered to rape a couple of people and nobody outside Lot's? house interfered, I think that might be another indicater of why the society was destroyed.

As for the flood? I beleive that to be justified, but I can only base that on my faith in a just God and the general trend in Old Testament history up to that time. You can only base your opposition on a beleif that that many people can't be wrong.

And, in my understanding, the Hebrew people were held to a higher standard than the surounding people. Something they promised.

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

Religion means nothing. All that matters is what is true. If something is true, it's true for me, true for you, and true for any Martians out there.

Since religions are beliefs about what is true, a religeon must be believed in order to be followed. Few people follow something they believe is false.

It's a bad idea to let your friend go on believing something false about something so important as life, the universe, and everything.

If I believe there is no God, and after you die there's nothing, who cares what other people believe? In my world there's only pleasure and pain. There's no such thing as absolute right and wrong. If I believe something is right, it makes me feel good. If it's wrong it makes me feel bad. Live and let live. That's what I say. The guy down the street believes something else? Don't rock the boat. He should believe what he feels is true. This works for me. I don't push my beliefs on others. That hurts. Both me and them. We can be friends without our opinions getting in the way.

If I believe God is true, then I believe we're in deep doo doo. God is just and justly destroys pride, prejudice, and all the rest of them. We're prideful and prejudicial. Unless God gives us a way out, we're bound for loneliness and sorrow-- utter destruction of your self. All your hopes and dreams shattered for infinity. But God, filled with compassion, provides a just way out. It's a narrow way, but it's straight like a laser. He took the destruction and on himself to set you free from the justice you deserve. My friend down the street doesn't believe this? He's in deep trouble. I have to help him.

In the first instance, I don't really care about what other people believe. I don't believe it's important. You die, you die. That's it. The guy down the street pisses me off 'cause he's always trying to push his "religion" on others. It's a personal thing. I believe there is no God. It's my opinion. All he's doing is causing other people pain.

In the second instance, I care very much about what others believe. It's important because the guy down the street is headed for destruction. I care about this guy. I don't want him to wind up regretting his life for the rest of infinity. If I really care about this guy, I'll do whatever I can to convince this guy that the destruction is real, and that God is real, and that Jesus is real. No matter the pain. Rocking the boat hurts? Suck it up, hombre.

So the degree to which someone will try and convince you of something is proportional to how important they believe that thing to be and how much they care about you, because that's how much pain they will be willing to endure to convince you of it.

Look at Jesus. That's not pain for pain's sake. That's pain for you personally. He must have a five gallon bucket of knowing something up there, 'cause that's a lot of pain. Men like that don't suffer pain for no good reason.

It's tough to believe in because love is so simple. It's easy to think too hard about it and miss the point completely. Children can understand it easily, while some of the greatest minds end up wrestling with it for their whole lives.

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

This thread is nearing the point where someone may be forced to show their wrath and erase all of the unchosen which sully the world which is forum. (threads which are OT) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

For if it does make the world unfriendly to those who have sought it out for its declared purpose, only to find it a den of iniquity, then it too shall fade from the world.

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"God" is not needed to have morality.

[ May 25, 2004, 04:17: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"God" is not needed to have morality. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He specified a specific sub-class of ethics; the absolute variety. As unproveable fundamental assumptions are unavoidable, some form of authority/authoritative document that is totally trusted (divine) is required for that sub-class - else, when someone recognizes and disagrees with one or more of those fundamental assumptions, there isn't anything that can be said.

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm not going to qoute the whole thing. I will simply say that our missionaries are instructed to go away if told to and that free will is an essential beleif of my religeon and that I will never force my beleif's on anyone, simply state them and disagree with what I beleive are people's misconceptions. If you tell me to never bother you with my religeos beleif's again, I will, to the best of my memory, never bother you with my religeos beleif's again. A forced conVersion means nothing.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">We've had off topic threads before that have been heated, still most is read before an answer is written and sometimes it's a debate instead of just stubbornly pointing out one's opinions, and for us who just read the thread it's interesting.

I don't think shrapnel should go in and participate in a thread and then delete it if they aren't happy with the content as long as it's not open racistic or plain stupid.
(but yes, after reading through this thread I too can see that it has touched upon both those criterias http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif And perhaps this particular thread is closing in on the deletion point...)

[ May 25, 2004, 05:59: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

We at the SEIV forum have traveld the OT road before and with much more heat. All the people that went on this road are still here and still talking to one another so I see no need to cut this one road short.

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Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Freduk I see you're from the netherlands. Next time you're in Amsterdam I suggest spending a few hours in the Anne Frank Museum- Hopefully that will be enough to make you think twice about taking action sections of your community based on their religion.

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[ May 25, 2004, 11:30: Message edited by: Mephisto ]

Re: OT: The Passion of the Christ movie
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Freduk, watch your Tongue, such words give a despectable image of our community.
I'm going to ask for the deletion of your post.