When the serpent told Eve that she and Adam would be as gods if they disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit, he meant that they would be able to decide for themselves what was good and what was evil. They would, in Justice Kennedy’s words, acquire “the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning,” etc.
One wonders whether it ever occurred to the Supreme Court justice that he was talking just like Satan. The judge made his remarks in the course of finding a long-lost right to sodomy buried in the Constitution. But because Satan’s arguments still seem persuasive to fallen man, we find ourselves engaged, nationally, in ridiculous arguments over same-sex “marriage.”
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People are just people so lets just let people live like the others, no matter what colour, race, creed, ect.
In a way, it turns out that this line is one of the few in the bible that actually means anything. Satan > God yet again. Well, if you make the assumption that the snake and Satan are one being. Otherwise, Snake > God.
Exactly, arguing over same-sex marriage is ridiculous. The government has other things to worry about, than who marries who. As long as both are consenting adults and neither is married, there should be no problem.
If it's in the Constitution, you should either follow it, or take actions to have it removed.
So being able to decide what's right and what's wrong is bad, but we have god given free will?
Really people, make up your fucking minds.
Oh I know this one, it's the story of the big shiny apple that the great Cosmic Psycho put in his sandpit, then a talking snake with legs told a guy and his rib (who was his wife) that they should eat the golden apple, because why the fuck not...
Then the Great Cosmic psycho threw the first of a billion violent temper tantrums, put the rib - girl in agonizing pain and cut the snakes legs off!
This is why folks outside your death cult think that you are freaking insane!
Don't worry, when the Jews wrote Deuteronomy(and alter the passages which were not convenient in the future), they have already fallen, isn't that?
Seems like the serpent was the only honest one out there.
According to Genesis 2:17,,,,"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
I seem to recall that they got kicked out of the garden,,,, but they surely didn't die the same day,,, in fact, they went on to raise a family.
"we find ourselves engaged, nationally, in ridiculous arguments over same-sex “marriage.”"
Any argument involving fundies is likely to be rediculous.
One wonders whether it ever occurred to the Supreme Court justice that he was talking just like Satan.
Wouldn't that same argument apply to our entire legal system, Constitution included?
Your Wholly Babble never identifies the talking snake as Satan.
Babble-class failure for you. Now obviously, if you talk out of your ass while discussing your supposedly holy book that you live your life by, your opinions on any other subject must immediately be judged as wrong and not worthy of consideration.
Again I ask: Why would God put such a tree where people get at it and specifically tell them not to touch it, knowing full well that He instilled free will and a sense of curiousity in them, if not to be a complete dick?
Wait, so we ACTUALLY POSSESS THE RIGHT TO DEFINE GOOD AND EVIL AND OUR CONCEPT OF EXISTENCE, and you still get on our asses like God has any weight to be throwing around? You make it sound like if we outvote him, God is powerless to have any sway in moral syntax, and I haven't seen him in the voting booth in a long ass time.
Also, Satan is right. God is a selfish, pathologically obsessive megalomaniac. If God were a human, but otherwise exactly the same, no one would like him.
What the fuck is it to you if two men or two women want to have sex, or get married? Your objections are all religious in nature which means they are invalid in a secular society.
If you want to live in a theocracy, move the fuck over to Saudi Arabia or Iran. We, the majority, do not want that bullshit over here. What you think god wants is irrelevant since he is being quiet on the subject.
Sodomy is a sexual act between couples, usually.
Same-sex marriage is currently a legal and constitutional matter being decided by the courts.
See the difference? It isn't that hard to distinguish the two, is it?
Re: this thread
So if the serpent was Satan, then he could argue that as he was acting under God's orders at the time, then God was responsible, indirectly or not, for the events that happened...
Legally speaking, this process is known as "Entrapment"...
Incedentally, AuraTwilight, a Welsh Monk called Morgan or Pelagus, debated this theological point, in the 7th Century, & was promptly declared a heretic, by the later St.Augstine for daring even to propose it, as it contradicted the doctrine of the time...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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