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posted by [personal profile] dragonfly at 11:27pm on 26/10/2010
Yep.

Cherry-picking the parts of the Bible you like and using it to brow-beat others is hypocritically arbitrary. While some people do believe the claim that every word of the Bible is equally divine and authoritative, I have yet to meet anyone who actually lives that way.

I think the "family values" crew may actually share a great deal of values in common with each other (they seem to understand what they mean when they use the label), but they'd do better not to claim it all came from the Bible. They should write their own manifesto, imo.
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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 01:15am on 27/10/2010
yup. stop using my tradition and thinking you know what it means, without actually studying it.
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posted by [personal profile] dragonfly at 02:21am on 27/10/2010
A recent fad that has swept through Unitarian Universalism is to have a person or a study group rewrite the ten commandments for modern sensibilities and values (yes, we are an arrogant, blasphemous lot). Mom's group replaced the first commandment (um, the Jewish first and second commandments) with "Respect other people's beliefs," and the prohibition on graven images became "Encourage creative endeavors." :-) They threw out quite a few and added things like, "Take care of the Earth." I think only "Do not murder" and "Do not steal" passed their review intact.
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