If you register as Christian you can't get an abortion
Abortions are biblical, though. The bible is not even remotely pro-life.
If you are Christian you are now required by law to follow you faiths convictions.
When I'm in a bad mood, I, too, would like to see some kind of law that makes people reap what they sow.
Would you want Christians to mandate a law for you? The Golden Rule is in full effect, don't set rules for others if you're unwilling to also live by some rule.
It's more like punishing hypocrisy by forcing them to live by their own rules. Those of us who don't believe such rules are divine would be exempt. "Judge not, lest ye be judged." If we are going to be held to the standards we ourselves hold, then let's have some fun with that.
New rule. Atheists can't have children except by making them through abiogenesis because they don't believe life comes a source.
I would imagine unlike most Christians, others know how reproduction works.
I don't either. It's almost as if the opening poster fails to recognize that Christianity is a diverse umbrella of many different religions with different teachings and practices. They also demonstrate a failure to recognize hypocrisy is universally human and hardly limited to those that they regard as "Christian."
I once read a story where a Chinese philosopher was told the kingdom had many Confucians, but hardly any of that guy's followers. He said, "hey, let's make a rule that if you dress up like a Confucian but don't act like one, you are killed." The king was like, "LOL," and made it a law. Suddenly, there was only ONE Confucian.
Aside from the fact the OP is ridiculous
Of course it's ridiculous. I need a laugh this morning. Besides, hypocrisy is my biggest pet peeve.
Many Baptist churches prohibit drinking.
My grandfather was a staunch Southern Baptist. He believed alcohol was a sin. As we got older, it came out that he had a brother with a drinking problem. As we got even older, it came out OUR GRANDFATHER was a little hellion back in the day, even doing drag races and stuff (the ones with the cars, not the outfits). He said he never had a motorcycle and yet we had a picture of him with one (he claimed it was one of his military officer's).
I never understood the concept of banning alcohol in a religion that teaches the Messiah went so far as to poof up magic alcohol for a party. It didn't cure cancer or anything. It was just so everyone could get super drunk.
okay. so I made this post to provoke strong reactions. I'm somewhat dissapointed.
Curious goal for a Vulcan. But, then again, even Vulcans had to own up to their emotional hypocrisy eventually. Spock created the reboot universe after trying to fuse Vulcan and Romulan cultures, realizing that logic wasn't all it was cracked up to be. In fact, in Enterprise, we realize all that pro-logic stuff was more or less an arbitrary religious or social rule, which means, ironically, that "devotion was logic" was set up for purely emotional reasons.
They live their lives according to their faith and bother no one on how they live unless its one of their own.
In other words, they police themselves. I can almost be certain that the new atheist movement is not due to anything the Ammish ever did.
And drugs are becoming a problem with that group. And they are experts at hypocrisy. I can go to a local Amish furniture store and some "English" will be manning the cash register because the Amish can't do credit cards, but they sure don't mind taking my money from that card as long as they don't touch it. Then there are the reality shows they get involved in. And then there's the grossly immoral "shunning", which is not even just an Amish thing, but I find it immoral to shun someone just for the hell of it. Sure, protect your society from violent criminals or whatever, but if you never see your child again because they took a test drive in a car, you don't deserve family whatsoever.
Sadly I see most christains are only pretending faith because of culture acceptance and fear of the unknown.
Yes. It's a theological fandom. It's for social acceptance, nothing more, for soooooo many people. The Way is more of a hypothetical exercise for them. They say morality is objective and your soul depends on it but will drop it like a hot potato when the whim suits them. I've heard Christians tell me that if God told them to do something immoral, they'd do it because God said it was okay. I'm sorry, but if morals are important, shouldn't one stand up to God and decline to be immoral? If I go to hell for being moral but not a boot licker ... worth it.
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
I realize there is just the abyss and we are all one with it.
The problem is that although i totally understand your logic in this, the religious right is more than willing to spend money and time in politics to push their morals on others.
As I recall, Christians tried somewhere to make cohabitation against the law to punish polygamists. That law was quickly shot down when they realized it would mean THEY couldn't have mistresses and stuff either.
I understand that the bible does have some very good lessons from the past
The lesson I get about a book describing the on again/off again existence of a nation of God's Chosen People is that xenophobic theocracies are a surefire way to avoid ever having a long-lasting country. Ancient Israel was done in just a few generations. It is NOT a blueprint for a successful country.
If you want to shape the world to match your own vision, I take this as a sign that you don't have faith that God or Christ can do this on his own.
The God of the bible must not be able to do much on His own because He keeps hiring humans to do the work. I mean, the world was there less than a week before he created a garden attendant just so He didn't have to pick up unicorn poop or whatever.
What about Plato or Socrates? Should people that are influenced by these philosophers be allowed to vote? They may be dangerous!
I'm confused. Did Plato or Socrates write the Constitution?
The two who passed by were religiously observant people, highly regarded by their religious communities. The Samaritan who stopped was seen as an outsider and enemy, but he was praised by Jesus because he acted out of charity instead of out of religion.
In "Don't Know the Bible", the author notes the modern equivalent would be "the Good Muslim Terrorist."
