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Perd Hapley

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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2008, 07:38:35 PM »
Here is a better search for Biblical uses of the word "antichrist."  There are other scriptures that may refer to antichrist by other names, but we get pretty deep into exegetic controversy if we try to sort them out.  I'm not really into that.  Ask lee n. field. 
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #26 on: April 07, 2008, 01:45:42 PM »
If one came across the anti-christ as a helpless infant still suckling at it's mother's teat and knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the infant was in fact the anti-christ would it be moral to kill him/her/it?

I don't care if God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Sekhmet, Quan Yin, Bob the Cosmic Wonderfish, L. Ron Hubbard, or whatever form of Divinity you worship comes and personally informs you that this child is the Anti-Christ. I don't care if you are transported to the day the Earth ends and come back with a notarized newspaper with the child's face on it, captioned, "I did it!" Some things, no matter where they come from, are just intrinsically wrong.

Killing an infant is pretty much at the top of the list.

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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #27 on: April 07, 2008, 01:50:18 PM »
Oh, come on!  Even if it was Bob, the Cosmic Wonderfish?  What the &*^% is the matter with you?!
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #28 on: April 08, 2008, 01:15:25 AM »
Oh, come on!  Even if it was Bob, the Cosmic Wonderfish?  What the &*^% is the matter with you?!

Yeah......what have you got against Bob?.....
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #29 on: April 08, 2008, 09:02:59 AM »
Do not invoke the Wrath of Bob....... angel
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2008, 12:23:39 PM »
is there anything you folks havn't debated till the bitter end?
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #31 on: April 08, 2008, 12:26:06 PM »
is there anything you folks havn't debated till the bitter end?

Most debates on APS don't end bitterly, they end in ridiculousness.  grin
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2008, 12:47:14 PM »
Or they end in the Brass Padlock of Doom. 
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Re: A Question of Morality
« Reply #33 on: April 08, 2008, 12:49:04 PM »
Or they end in the Brass Padlock of Doom. 

and its all your fault

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