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_beastie
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Post by _beastie »

If wade said it, it's got to be true. I guess I'm too young to understand. I better go back to the kids table where everyone is just as egocentric, but less pretentious.



You silly baby. It's not just that wade said it, it's WHY he said it. The WHY is that the history of Judeo-Christianity is replete with evidences that God engages in this behavior frequently. God issues commandments, and then turns around and orders his people to break those commandments.

Face it, your God is nothing more than a mafia boss, complete with loyalty tests and rewarding alpha males with females.
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_Tarski
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Post by _Tarski »

beastie wrote:
If wade said it, it's got to be true. I guess I'm too young to understand. I better go back to the kids table where everyone is just as egocentric, but less pretentious.



You silly baby. It's not just that wade said it, it's WHY he said it. The WHY is that the history of Judeo-Christianity is replete with evidences that God engages in this behavior frequently. God issues commandments, and then turns around and orders his people to break those commandments.

Face it, your God is nothing more than a mafia boss, complete with loyalty tests and rewarding alpha males with females.

Well put and once put that way should make anyone consider that God may be a construction invented exactly so alpha males or the priestly class or some group can leverage more social power.
Joseph Smith was one heck of an alpha male.

Helps to remember we are a species of ape.
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Post by _Gazelam »

The very thought behind the OP is so stupid I refuse to even respond to it.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
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Post by _Gadianton »

You don't respond because you know I'm right, Gaz. Believe me when I say that if sans your current knowledge of Smith's pedophilia or the many ridiculous stories in the Old Testament, that if I were to make the post suggesting God may one day require you or someone else to take a third or fourth wife -- teenager no less -- or to put a child on the alter for a sacrafice, you'd tell me that the suggestion of such things is so stupid you can't take it seriously. In fact, you are probably so blind and indoctrinated with Mormonic double standards that you can't even see HOW the Lafferty brothers or the FLDS believe their own teachings.

Yep, Gaz, you know I'm right. :)

Sorry.
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