Re: Two anti-anti Bible posts in one...

it's not something you put on people, but something you write about people.

But failure to communicate it by the registered themself in many contexts is illegal - we already see the restrictions on freedom of movement, and I am positive Obama is preparing a proposal to make all the registered have a special type of bank savings / check / credit account, so that all their economic transactions can be monitored.

Plus, it's not being advocated for the entire populace, but for people who break laws.

As long as it's "for the children", it will come to pass sooner or later.

'Killing their soul' is a metaphor. I really doubt an anti literally believes that.

If you adhere to Bible inerrancy, then there is no use for metaphor; and thus the expression "killing their soul" HAS to mean "killing their soul" - there is no space for it to mean "tickling their toes".

If you don't adhere to Bible inerrancy, so that you can salvage that "killing their soul" is just a metaphor, then you can also make a metaphor out of the Herod passage and claim he didn't really mean to literally kill them all, or even that it was simply an allegory of the future prosecution of the followers of Christ, or, my fave, that it was a prophesy of the contemporary siege of the Church of the Nativity by the Israeli army...

Herod may not have even believed in souls, do we have any information about the guy's religious beliefs at all?

Although ethnically Arab, his family had converted to rabbinical Judaism.