There is a verse in the bible (and forgive me for forgetting exactly which one) that says something like if you steal it is better to cut off the offending hand so that you will not be tempted and perhaps salvage yourself for Heaven later...or something to that effect.
This is "an eye for an eye" thinking in some ways and that got me to thinking about the death penalty...if a person commits murder and receives the death penalty there are plenty of devoutly-religious people (and others, too) who are violently opposed to that punishment...the general theory, I think, being that murder is a sin.
So while there are some people who would rather we lived every minute of our lives according to the bible's teachings, why then do some of these same people choose to overlook things like "an eye for an eye"? For them, what determines what is reasonable to "ignore" in the bible and what is not?
2006-09-13
16:44:46
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