China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city

[DanneSandin]

padib said:

DanneSandin said:

Oh goodie ^^

Well, just because there is a good verse for every evil verse doesn't make the Bible a moraly right and good book. I mean, Hitler did some good things for Germany before he started WWII. Does that mean we could/should just forget all the (very) bad things he did? The same thing can probably be said about Stalin.

Going by Lot's actions, he was far from a good man, far from a good morale example. We could even take a look at God himself and deduce that it's a jealous and moraly corrupt God. What did he do to the first borns of Egypt when ONE Egytian refused to let the Jews go? He murdered a whole generation of innocent children. If that isn't sick, I don't know what is. With ll his might there would have been thousands of other ways to convince the Pharao to let the Jews go.

My point about good and bad verses is that, people follow religions. If a religion has some good verses and some bad, at some point those opposing forces will clash. A person practicing the religion honestly will have to ask themselves, at their core, what values they wish to pursue and which they wish to ignore.

In contrast Hitler did great things and he did horrible things, however these never were in opposition when it came to the interests of the german people. It is also true that many germans were not fully aware of what was happening behind closed doors, and only the most fanatic were able to pursue the evil things Hitler advanced. It is the same thing with religion.

The answers to the other theological points in this post are much wider in scope than this thread allows. Perhaps we can find a better place to answer them.

Yes, these are certainly interesting things, but it feels like we're derailing the thread :) and I need to sleep anyways ^^