[Do you concede that you misinterpreted Exodus 21:22-23?]
No, because I've prayed about this verse and I know what God is actually meaning in it, and it's the same thing I've been saying all along.
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*ahem* from the HarperCollins Study Bible that I used for my Biblical History course at the Theology Department of the University of Notre Dame [perhaps you've heard of it?], Exodus 21:22: "When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no further harm* follows... [etc]"
And we go down to the footnote for this...
Harm: to the woman... verses 12-14 do not apply because the fetus is not legally a person.
I know she's not here to read this, but I couldn't let that go without some actual scholarly input.
"Can we disqualify Myspace postings from FStDT? The random noises from teenyboppers who haven't had a single high school science course don't rate. The same kind of thing from someone old enough to know better is what we're after, isn't it?"
I sort of understand the sentiment, but at the same time I think most rational people know better then this even at 13, 16, 18 or whatever. Myspace is like playing triple A ball before graduating to Rapture Ready and Free Conservatives.
"I don't know, JoJo!'s 19. I'd like to think I knew better at 19 (at least)."
You know, I once saw an application that someone had filled out which said that they had attended high school for 12 years. I wondered, then, "What sort of person takes 12 years to graduate from high school?"
And now I know.
When I was 19, I was just as fundie as JoJo. I was about 25 when I deconverted. I don't think it has to do with MySpace, it's just that she hasn't questioned her beliefs yet.
BTW, I'm on MySpace and I'm 30.
If, in one of these little tet-a-tets you have with the Divine One, you hear something that sounds like "pick up a gun and shoot the pigs", you might want to follow David D.G.'s advice.
"I don't think it has to do with MySpace, it's just that she hasn't questioned her beliefs yet."
Its just that myspace has shitty looking web pages that the site creators did as a joke, and seems to attact the lowest common denonimator of people.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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