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- Good laws make distinctions, good laws make punishments fit the crime. According to Ray and Kirk's narrow version of God, humans deserve eternal torment for offending this all-powerful superbeing's ego. This is ridiculous and absurd, it also makes Yahweh a moral monster. Imagine a society where ALL criminals are executed. Accessing this law, we can see its flawed, but no only because of disproportionate punishment is unjust, under this rule those who commit minor crime having nothing to lose but all to gain by killing witnesses . Murder can't increase the consequences for them, they can only inflate the chances of evading execution. In this way, execution for all crime actually encourages minor crimes to escalate. This gives us a reason to tailor punishment in the severity of the offense, especially in the category in the case of serious crime. For example, while rape is a horrific form of abuse, punishing murder more severely will tend to deter rapists from also killing their victims. As before with indiscriminate execution, the rapist loses nothing, but might gain, by also committing murder.
- What type of Christian? there are over 30,000 different denominations of Christianity, each claiming to have the correct interpretation of the bible and the best understanding of God.
- It is very natural for a person to keep the money just as it is natural for people to return it. Kirk tries to paint these acts of kindness are "rare" to the point a single case makes National news.
You know what also makes national news: stealing and giving it all away to the needy. We consider Robin Hood a folk hero, he stole many things and gave it to the poor. Although, according to Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort, people like Robin Hood deserve eternal torment for feeding children.
- Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are masters at appealing to emotions and avoiding using rational and logical thought. They know that they have no rational case, and thus play with people's fears and emotions.
- The Santa Monica Pier and 3rd Street Promenade is a great place to visit. Unfortunately, for a while it is also a target for Christian preachers holding signs telling people to repent while passing out fliers. It is also a target for "9/11 truthers" and young-earth creationists. It is not like Speakers Corner, just a dozen or so people there trying to push their message upon families, shoppers and tourists.
- If any educated Christian or Jew was standing next to a conversation with ray and another person, they would have pointed out the flaws in ray's interpretation of the Ten Commandments. For instance, the Commandments do not forbid lying in the broad sense, nor does the Bible always punish thievery.
- Organized religion in the Army = unconstitutional. Already branches are reaching out to ensure the Constitution and the Establishment Clause is recognized and upheld in the military.
- One small act, especially when you are young, does not portray your entire character. When you were young, you very likely soiled your diapers, but that does not make you you for the rest of your life.
- Wow, so it is wrong to steal bread to feed your children. Sorry Kirk, but the rest of humanity disagrees with you. Society recognizes Robin Hood as a folk hero, a man who risked a lot in order to bring hope to the people.
- The I.Q. Test is not really an I.Q. Test, but word trickery. A close inspection reveals that several of the words a re repeated, which are deliberately designed that way to be missed if reading through the sentences quickly. The purpose of this "test" is not to educate you, but to trick you. Once you fall for the trick, Ray and Kirk jumps in and declare that you made a mistake, and therefore you could be mistaken about God and Hell. What Ray and Kirk never do is admit that they could possibly be wrong about other deities like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
- RationalWiki already has provided a review of the Evidence Bible, and none of these supposed "questions and objections" as well as commentary on certain social topics, has been given a valid or rational response. Rather, they are laced with fallacies, speculation, and wishful thinking.
- The same can be said about Allah. Going on and on about how humans are criminals is pointless.
Answering the question why people steal is a tough question, and answering it with a mystery does not answer it at all. It only works for the simple minded.
- God did not punish David, who was the one who sinned. Rather, God decided that David's innocent newborn child be punished. That child did not die suddenly, it lay in pain for a week until it died.
- In the book of Genesis, Jacob stole and lied often, but he was never punished by God - in fact, Jacob was often rewarded.
- What Ray and Kirk have is not a cure, more like a virus that strips you of your rational mind and clouds your intellectual and ethical behavior.
- Laws differ depending where you live. For instance, it may be legal and not stealing if you pick an apple from a tree whose branch stretches above the sidewalk. If you can reach vertically and grab an apple, it is not stealing.
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