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In reply to the discussion: Corruption, Duplicitousness, and Lying are Important Christian Values, Apparently. [View all]ollie10
(2,091 posts)Here is what I said back thread.....
"But that verse was part of a psalm about the nation of the Jews who were displaced and looking forward to getting their land back.
It might help to understand how literature is not always literal....sometimes there are such things as metaphors, and such. Most of us learn that in school"
Clearly sometimes does not mean every time....or even most times.
And one of your replies in #47:
The bible contains all sorts of contradictory instructions including "thou shall not kill" while directing the killing of innocents in other situations, which you dismiss as metaphorical
Come on, I only pointed out one Psalm might be metaphorical....now that gets magnified to all sorts of.....
Then we got side tracked by some reference to leviticus!
This is silly. You don't like Christianity. We get that.