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[abigailbrady]

had a jevohah's witness around this morning. kept her busy for a good long while. she was unable to answer quite basic moral questions about genesis.

i tried to convert her to gnosticism but this didn't work and she said that satan had done well with me. at this point i closed the door. the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster will have to wait until another opportunity.

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[riak.livejournal.com]

I like to get some lines out of Leviticus and claim that it is from my sun worshipping religion and watch them get all outraged at their own holy book!

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

i did bring up the good old mixed-fabrics bit : i need to memorise the chapter and line numbers of that. there's what i consider a perfectly good answer to this in mainstream christianity, which is to note that jesus brought a new covenant. (mind, I don't quite understand what criteria is used to determine which bits of the old covenant lurk around.) similarly i would have taken "it was all part of god's unknowable plan" as an answer for "why hold someone morally responsible for an action [eating an apple] when they did not yet have knowledge of good and evil and understand morality".

[riak.livejournal.com]

Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law of Moses or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them!"

So they should be stoning people in mixed fabric shirts!