My question is this: creationists take the story of the bible literally and believe that the world was created by God in seven days; why therefore do they refuse to treat the rest of the bible in the same literal manner? For example, one of the ten commandments - 'thou shalt not kill': take this literally, and you should end up with a Bhuddist type belief that all life is precious and not to be wasted. As far as I know, creationists are usually also supporters of having guns etc, and go hunting and shooting (which is killing, is it not? God said thou shalt not kill, and as far as I know didn't qualify this with, 'but hey, you think hunting and killing is fun, so off you go and kill some deer') and probably wouldn't hesitate to shoot a burglar as seems to happen fairly frequently in the US, or so we are led to believe.
How can they justify these double standards??
2006-08-10
19:49:22
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