@s23bog said (#34):
> I didn't bother to read the dictionary definition of curse.
Well, as i have quoted it (and stated that i had), what have you read at all when you "answered" me? "I didn't bother to read what you have written but will answer to it" is a rather strange proposition, no?
> You wanted to talk about curses
As it is: no. I was answering to
@TKtheGrandMaster who has brought it up in #28 (which i have mentioned as a quote when i answered it in #29). So, to sum it up: you haven't read what i wrote at all (otherwise you would have known) but you want to discuss what i write. I suggest actually reading what you want to debate might contribute to the quality of your arguments.
@s23bog said (#33):
> Likewise, what is written on the pages of the Holy Bible are written because people actually believe what was written.
So i take it when you say "it is written" that means "it is written in the bible", yes? Just for the sake of understanding each other: could you start to write in English instead of in code? Anyway, it doesn't really matter what is written there. Written in the bible is also that bats are birds and whales are fish. Does that make it true? Or does it make biologists delusional, because they are all firmly convinced of the opposite?
I will give you that, it says a lot about the people who wrote it: they were awfully lacking in education and ignorant about a lot of things. Chances are they were ignorant about a lot of other things too, it just isn't that obvious all. This is especially true for ethics and principles of morals. Let us see (the following quotes are taken from the "New International Version"):
Deuteronomy 20,10ff:
> When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.
ah, obviously a religion of peace
> If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject
> to forced labor and shall work for you.
Ok, i understand now what they mean by "peace".
> If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to
> that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the
> sword all the men in it.
Well, everybody even slightly critical about the concept of genocide might argue with that one.
> As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the
> city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.
Now, that is nice: genocide, but with a little organised rape thrown in for good measure. Sounds like a little problematic way of living together, no?
So, here is the curse of the day: the last time somebody made such a stance about others the base rule of his politics we put them before the Nuremberg Trial and hanged some of them - not nearly enough of them, for my liking, but it was a start. I hope everybody else believing similar racist nonsense like the one quoted above should be judged and sentenced the same way the Nazis were.
krasnaya
