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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Pleasurepays, you have some very misguided and too-literal views of what you think "people are taught in the bible" dude. Maybe you ought to head over to a christian forum for answers, or perhaps a church. To me, much of the bible is symbolic in nature, written not to amaze you with some grand magic act but to illustrate solid precepts for living one's life with a modicum of honor and integrity. It is a guide, not a promise of cures if you pray hard enough.
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well.... i did go to a private christian school... and was raised around this sort of insanity. its not "the bible" generally as much as it is the church and what they are taught or how a person chooses to interpret the "messages" and which ones they choose to ignore and which they choose to live by.
i am not defending what she did. its absurd and its murder.
who decides which messages are just parables or symbolic and which are records of actual events that actually occurred? did jesus wake up and walk up to heaven? you can't say no to that because that is the very foundation of christianity... but did he turn water to wine? no? really? is that somehow less silly and "just a symbolic message"?
who decides where to draw those very subjective lines?
people do. are those lines different today than they were 1000 years ago? of course. was there somehow less symbolism 400 years ago? its all very subjective and open to interpretation...
i am simply saying that its not all that unreasonable to see someone thinking "God will heal her"..
maybe you need to go to church and watch 1000 people pray to make someones cancer go away? thats no less retarded.