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Originally Posted by verklingen
so we don't kill todd, we rehabilitate him. is our society, rife with its myriad injustices, truly more just than god himself?
the bible was written and kept by people, and people are fain to use whatever means necessary to achieve their desire. we have to remember that religious writings were as much holy scripture as they were historical records, and that in identifying with their gods ancient cultures were wont to paint a powerful picture of those gods and, by proxy, themselves. the same "spin" you mention in the translation of biblical texts must be considered for those who wrote and kept the original text itself.
jesus distilled the goodness of his people's god and built from it a doctrine of compassion (really like what waves had to say  ). i stand by my original sense of wonderment at people's obsession with mythology while all that separates them from eternally self-evident truths are a few pages of paper
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Rehabilitate... that's the "repent" option,
IF Todd is willing. However, in our society, "Todd" isn't the 7-Eleven thief, the car vandal, or even the rapist or pedophile. Yes, these are a problem, but in the words of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, that's "baby shit" compared to Todd. Todd is the mega governments, the mega corporations, the pharmaceutical, oil and other industries, even religious tyrannicals... the "Great men of the Earth"
(Rev 18:23) who are raping, pillaging, polluting and destroying at the expense of the masses (the whole, including the Earth itself). That's "Todd" and
he does not want to be rehabilitated. Our society is not rehabilitating Todd. Todd is trying to assimilate society.
And you're right about peoples and texts and eternally self-evident truths. That's why ultimate Truth isn't found in a book. Its found within.