Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> If your God or Gods tells you to slay people, that's what you do. Go 
>> read the Old Testament, where the Jews torched entire cities and 
>> committed genocide at the bequest of JHVH.
> 
>   It also says in another part that God said to someone to chop some wood
> to make a fire. Does this mean that everyone who believes the Bible must
> go and chop wood to make a fire? No, it just means that God said to someone
> to chop some wood for a fire, nothing more, nothing less. Creating a doctrine
> from this would be adding something to the Bible that isn't there, which is
> explicitly prohibited.

I'm not sure whether you're trying to disagree with me or not. My 
statement was that "religion doesn't lead to good, it leads to 
obedience". Your statement seems to be "what you're supposed to obey 
isn't always clear."

If your religion is a justification for your actions, then picking out 
only the parts of your religion that say to do good things is kind of 
silly. If you do that, you've already made up your mind about what's 
good, and you're using religion to justify it, which isn't any better or 
worse than those doing bad and using religion to justify it.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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