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In reply to the discussion: "Usha, I want you to be a good Christian like me." - Vance. [View all]William Seger
(12,036 posts)... he strained his little brain for a few seconds and come up with: "Well, I think many. I mean, you know, when we get into the Bible, I think many. So many. And some peoplelook, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that. Thats not a particularly nice thing. But you know, if you look at whats happening to our country, I mean, when you see whats going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us."
Presumably, he was talking about Old Testament verses, apparently unaware of what Christ actually said about that: instead of taking an eye for an eye, turn the other cheek. He called that and other teachings that contradicted the Old Testament a "new covenant." For some pathological reason, people who reject all of it still call themselves Christian.
I gave up religion when I was a teenager, but Christ's teachings about morality have never left me.