‘I’m just here so I don’t get fined’

‘I’m just here so I don’t get fined’ May 19, 2015

• “If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you? You may destroy only the trees that you know do not produce food.” — Deuteronomy 20:19-20

• An oddly kinky headline from Charismanews (via).

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That may be even less enticing than this other voyeuristic new offering from basic cable’s horribly misnamed The Learning Channel: The Submissive Wives’ Guide to Marriage. (Actually, I hear it’s about ethics in gaming journalism.)

• “Sorry. Iraq Wasn’t a Good Faith Mistake. It Was Based on Lies.” Yes, and those lies were obvious and indefensible at the time.

James McGrath shares a quote from Rachel Held Evans: “The very condition of humanity is to be wrong about God.”

I’ll take that as an excuse to repost something written here a couple years ago in a discussion of “Are Mormons Christian? A series of unhelpful questions“:

Mormon doctrines are full of errors, mistakes and misconceptions about God.

The category “Mormon” is a subset of the category “human.” Thus what is true for all human doctrines is also true for all Mormon doctrines — i.e., they are full of errors, mistakes and misconceptions about God.

If, then, God’s favor, God’s love, our redemption or our salvation is based on our possession of orthodox, accurate and correct doctrine about God, then Mormons are, like the rest of us, in big trouble.

• And speaking of errors, mistakes and misconceptions about God … There’s a special providence in the fall of a dropped pass on third and eight (via):

The readiness is all.

 

 


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