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Bible code theory

qayak said:
Religions are not all inclusive. In fact, they are exclusive
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I think it is true with regards to fundamental religions.

Liberal religions are not exclusive. They are all cherry-picking from their holy texts according to more or less modern ethical criteria. There is nothing exclusive about that.
 
Glen.Nogami said:
I'm not sure that you should've conceded that bit about discussing the people so quickly, cnorman.


is not convincing to me. Religions necessarily make their presence felt in the world by the actions of their believers. Therefore, even though Islam and Christianity have similarly barbaric commandments about what ought to be done about various types of crime/abominations/etc, the fact that they are practiced in the Islamic world (Saudi Arabia, cutting off hands of thieves, the near-universal discrimination against women, etc), makes Islam the more barbaric religion of the two, independent of the fact that there may or may not be more barbarity in the Qur'an than in the Bible.

Now, if we're talking about the religions on a purely literary sense, and basing our judgments independent of religious impact on the real world, you'd also have to withdraw your somewhat distasteful "Dictators" argument. Take your pick.
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Point taken. I just didn't think it worth pursuing at the time, having other fish to fry. Thanks, though; you're probably right.
 
JetLeg said:
I think it is true with regards to fundamental religions.

Liberal religions are not exclusive. They are all cherry-picking from their holy texts according to more or less modern ethical criteria. There is nothing exclusive about that.
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Sorry, not what I meant. They all clearly identify the members of their group as being distinctly different from everyone else. That's why you have so many different sects and denominations.

They are exclusive in that their members are "the chosen ones" andf everyone else is wrong to some degree or other.
 
Glen.Nogami said:
I'm not sure that you should've conceded that bit about discussing the people so quickly, cnorman.


is not convincing to me. Religions necessarily make their presence felt in the world by the actions of their believers. Therefore, even though Islam and Christianity have similarly barbaric commandments about what ought to be done about various types of crime/abominations/etc, the fact that they are practiced in the Islamic world (Saudi Arabia, cutting off hands of thieves, the near-universal discrimination against women, etc), makes Islam the more barbaric religion of the two, independent of the fact that there may or may not be more barbarity in the Qur'an than in the Bible.
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You cherry pick. You ignore things that have gone on in Rwanda and other places where it is christians doing the killing and maiming. You are making a false comparison. Take two countries with economic and education levels close to each other and compare how their respective religions behave. Rwanda, for instance.

Now, if we're talking about the religions on a purely literary sense, and basing our judgments independent of religious impact on the real world, you'd also have to withdraw your somewhat distasteful "Dictators" argument. Take your pick.
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Why would I have to withdraw the dictators argument? Hitler used religion, Stalin was trained by and used religion, Kim Il-sung is the president of North Korea and yet he is dead, he has been declared a god and his son is said to be one with the father which is where he gets his authority from, Saddam used religion . . .

And religions all embraced their dictatorial benefactors.
 
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:jaw-dropp What are the odds ? :jaw-dropp​
 
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Loss Leader said:
So the codes are not predictive but:




Which is it? Are the codes making predictions or not? It sounds like part of your professed proof that the codes are real is that they predicted the names and birthdates of later-born rabbis. And yet, these names and dates came true before the codes were deciphered.

Sounds like utter nonsense to me.
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It is.
 
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