Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 04:47:29 -0700
"Michael M." <mcubed@slashmail.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 14:53 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > 
> > My point is simply that the Bible clearly views sacrifice as
> > religiously valuable, and whatever the value may be, there's no a
> > priori reason to assume it's less legitimate than nourishment. The only
> > possible basis to attack the bible as condoning immorality is if one
> > denies the basic premise that sacrifice is valuable.
> 
> 
> The concept of "sacrifice" is significantly broader that the act of
> animal sacrifice.  It's certainly possible to find value (religious or

Of course it is, but that's not relevant to my point that the Bible
clearly approves of *animal* sacrifice, in addition to other sorts of
sacrifices ("The sacrifices of the Lord are a broken spirit").

> otherwise) in the notion of personal sacrifice while nonetheless
> condemning the practice of animal sacrifice.  The religious types can

That's fine, but again, we were discussing the Bible's morality or lack
thereof, not mine or yours.

> sort out what's moral or immoral; personally, I think animal sacrifice
> is distasteful, disrespectful, and just one of many unappealing aspects
> of the Christian bible.

It's a free country [see the other recent OT thread], but I disagree
with your choice of criteria; I consider morality the paramount
criterion. But then again, I'm religious ...

[snip]

Celejar
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