Thou shalt have no other gods before me

[Taz]

So basically you're saying that you can't be sure of anything you read in the bible. Like trying to cherry-pick movable goalposts.

So whether you do spend the time and effort to try to understand it is entirely up to you, but it seems to me that if you don’t that you are the one cherrypicking and moving the goal posts.

I took time to understand that god is saying that there are multiple gods.

Do you believe God said that? Or do you believe men said that?

That's supposed to be god talking to Moses, right?

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

 

[ding]

So whether you do spend the time and effort to try to understand it is entirely up to you, but it seems to me that if you don’t that you are the one cherrypicking and moving the goal posts.

I took time to understand that god is saying that there are multiple gods.

Do you believe God said that? Or do you believe men said that?

That's supposed to be god talking to Moses, right?

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

 

[Taz]

I took time to understand that god is saying that there are multiple gods.

Do you believe God said that? Or do you believe men said that?

That's supposed to be god talking to Moses, right?

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

 

[ding]

Do you believe God said that? Or do you believe men said that?

That's supposed to be god talking to Moses, right?

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

And yet it was the foundation of Western Civilization.

 

[Taz]

That's supposed to be god talking to Moses, right?

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

And yet it was the foundation of Western Civilization.

So is Santa Claus, so what?

 

[ding]

Did God actually talk to Moses?

Or were things revealed to Moses?

Haven’t you ever had things revealed to you before? I believe we all have.

You do know Moses didn’t write Genesis, right?

He recorded the oral account which had been passed down for thousands of years.

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

And yet it was the foundation of Western Civilization.

So is Santa Claus, so what?

Can you tell me how Santa Claus is the foundation of Western Civilization?

 

[Taz]

So you're saying that Moses made the Commandments up. I agree, if that even happened.

So who was the first person to start the arab telephone chain thousands of years ago?

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

And yet it was the foundation of Western Civilization.

So is Santa Claus, so what?

Can you tell me how Santa Claus is the foundation of Western Civilization?

Santa Claus draws in the next generation to Western religious thought.

 

[ding]

Nope. I didn’t say that.

I suspect it wasn’t one man.

The revelation was that he could make anything up and people would believe it.

And yet it was the foundation of Western Civilization.

So is Santa Claus, so what?

Can you tell me how Santa Claus is the foundation of Western Civilization?

Santa Claus draws in the next generation to Western religious thought.

Christian values were the foundation which Western Civilization was built upon. No other institution played a greater role in shaping Western Civilization than the Catholic Church. Modern science was born in the Catholic Church. Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market. The Catholic Church invented the university. Western law grew out of Church canon law. The Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life. The Church constantly sought to alleviate the evils of slavery and repeatedly denounced the mass enslavement of conquered populations and the infamous slave trade, thereby undermining slavery at its sources.