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Originally Posted by Vulcan
It gets to a point that it is pointless to discuss morals with these bible literalists. I can see why the speaker just goes ahead and speaks the truth.
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I disagree, I went to a church school (C of E) so learnt,and was interested in, the philosophy of the various christian churchs, if you approach the bible with some knowledge of the bible most of the US religeous right, the Phelps and his like, completely fall apart, from a strictly theological point of view much of US baptist theology is just plain wrong and does not stand up to its own logic. Lets be honest most small US churchs are little more than a business for some borderline huckster who got his divinity degree of the back of a match book, doesn't make for sterling philosophy.
Granted you won't likely have a Saul on the Road to Damascus like conversion but you can plant some fairly significant seeds of doubt in most of the worst of their excesses.