joshwoodzell wrote:

But do they think King James and Jesus hung out or something. Really? A lot of people consider the king james version awful, as he hated women and edited the book as he saw fit.

Heresy! The Bible was written in English and it was written especially for white people!

Seriously though, what language was the New Testament originally in? Was it in Latin, due to the Roman control of the region at the time? Or was it written in something else? Aramaic, maybe?

SoldierHawk wrote:

Man, this is almost as good as the super-insane-right-wingers who want to "cleanse" the Bible of all liberal influence. Y'know, by removing the references to liberal agendas like "feeding the poor" and "being nice to people" and "sharing your wealth."* Jackasses.

That's stupid. Those things unquestionably belong in the Bible, and their inclusion does not promote a liberal agenda. I believe strongly that I have an obligation as a Christian to be as charitable individual as I can afford, whenever I am able to do so. The Shriners, VFWers, and Salvation Armed Forces that hang out outside supermarkets at various points during the year can attest to this. But I also most wholeheartedly believe that charity is religious virtue, and in my particular case, a Catholic one. I feel no obligation either as a human being or an American to be charitable, but as a Catholic, I choose to do so. And that is the whole point of charity: it's a choice. Doing the right thing is only doing the right thing when you choose to do it of your own free will. When someone else, like say the government, forces you to do the right thing, it becomes meaningless. Furthermore, if charity is indeed a moral issue, the government has no right to force it upon us in the form of socialism and socialist programs. We have heard from the left all too often on the issue of abortion that there must be a separation of church and state, and that it is not the government's job to legislate morality. If they truly believe this, then why do they always try to push through programs that nothing more than charity? Is it perhaps because they're hypocrites? Everyone cries "you can't legislate morality!" until it's THEIR morality in the legislation.

Tyop wrote:

The whole point of having a government in the first place is to enforce a minimal set of moral values. What these values are is a matter of debate. But to argue that the government has no right to interfere in moral issues at all is a poor argument against any specific law, because it means rejecting any law that is more than purely conventional.

I do agree. But one of the most popular slogans of American Left in support of abortion, unilateral recreational drug legalization, and other controversial issues is thta "you can't legislate morality". And it's a nice slogan, but few, if any laws, were written by amoral people in an amoral mindset out of an amoral necessity.