[MicroBalrog]

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[Chupacabra]

UGH. :rolleyes:

Isn't the 1st commandment "THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME" or something like that???

What does that have to do with the "gun" issue?

:banghead:

[Mark Tyson]

Where did that cartoon come from?

[telomerase]

As usual, the cartoonist is implying a mistranslation of the 6th commandment (though probably I should be happy that most people think the gods are against killing).

[Schuey2002]

Isn't the 1st commandment "THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME" or something like that???
"Thou shalt (or, You shall) 'have no other' gods before me".. ;)

[Standing Wolf]

Whew! This is one of those social occasions when I sure am glad I'm an atheist.

[Feanaro]

The correct translation is "Thou shalt not murder" or "Thou shalt not commit murder." However you prefer it. I can even prove this.

Numbers 35:26-27

"But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;

and the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
"

Numbers 35:31

"31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. "

Translation: You can't take stuff in exchange for the murderer's life. He has to die.

Romans 13:4

"For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil. "

Anyone who thinks you cannot kill, ever, because of "Thou shalt not kill" has been reading rather selectively.

[RTFM]

M.B. Are you conscripted yet?
How's it goining?

[MicroBalrog]

RTFM - Signing up today.:)

[Nightfall]

Whew! This is one of those social occasions when I sure am glad I'm an atheist.

Diddo.