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Why stop there?
Posted by Marutoph on 2008-July-20 05:16:29 EDT, Sunday
In reply to Re: Two anti-anti Bible posts in one... posted by LGsinmyheart on 2008-July-20 03:02:52 EDT, Sunday
But the thing is, these apply to criminals. My understanding was this was something that was supposed to apply to the entire populace.
Your 'it will come to pass' reasoning doesn't make any sense. That's a really premature and broad speculation as to the implications of something. No one is going to 'for the children' create a public registry of every single person's face and address of every single member of society. It would be entirely meaningless for protecting children.
Doing it selectively for people who have prior offenses does make some sense. I don't agree with it at all (because it ignores the danger of the man who lacks priors, and general intrusion of freedom, and of bias in prosecuting criminals) but I understand the purpose, and you have to realize that there is no clear purpose in doing it to everyone, so you really have to come up with a convoluted reason for making that kind of analogy between skipping from criminals (sex offenders at that) to stalking every member of the public 'for the children'.
Failure to communicate is an issue for a lot of people on parole too... sex offender or not.
The problem with deference to biblical inerrency being used in your argument is that the expression 'killing your soul' isn't in the bible, it's being uttered by the public. Public advocates of biblical inerrency do not necessarily not use (or even avoid using) errency/metaphor in their own lives. Arguing for the sake of arguing? :p
That's cool about Jew Herod, the more you know I guess. Even so, the soul concept doesn't seem very clear in judaism. Furthermore, the concept of being able to kill it is something you're drawing out of the casual phrasing of antis and not from the bible so taking it literally like that just seems to be an effort at poking fun or causing trouble and ignoring the kind of problems they're basing their outrage on, which do exist.
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