"Soul food" <cthulhu@soulstogo.com> wrote in message
news:uetgk1pf239eaigu638h712fc6n0is2giu@4ax.com...

Into alt.atheism shot "Carl Rooker" <rookerc@dnx.net> and breathlessly
exclaimed:

There are certain circumstances where He does authorize the taking of
life.
I make no apology about this. One of those is for the premeditated murder
of another individual. He has also given clear warning to make sure the
accused is actually the real guilty party before such an event.
Point is, that He made a contract with that man, and his nation, and that
man broke the contract full well knowing the consequences. Whether you
agree with God on this or not, it is a matter between that man and God,
and
God has the right whether you give it to him or not.
He is trying to teach you (personally) something here, but you are missing
the point in your antagonism.

He is not trying to teach me anything. He cannot teach me anything -
he doesn't exist, that is a fact. The only reason anybody says
otherwise is because they are afraid not to. That is abject moral
cowardice as well as dishonesty.
Oh! and by the way, thank you for admitting that theists believe that
God gives them a right, even a duty, to take another person's life,
and that the taking of such a life is justified (supposedly) according
to theological abstractions. Moral tirpitude doesn't get any more
abject than that.
Thank you also for neatly explaining the linkage between religion and
warfare even better than I could.
D Silverman FLAHN, SMLAHN AA #2208

There is no "linkage" nor permission to kill anyone in the Christian
belief system, for we are to love our enemies and do good to those who would
abuse us etc.
The permission, if not commandment to kill only occurs in the
Tanakh of Judaism. See footnotes

Pastor Frank

THE COMMANDMENTS YHWH GAVE MOSES ON MT. SINAI.

"For the law was given by Moses..." (John 1:17) and:

"...according to the law of Moses..." (Luke 2:22

Leviticus 20:9-27 If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to
death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his
own head.
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife-with the wife
of his neighbor-both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his
father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood
will be on their own heads.
If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be
put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be
on their own heads.
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them
have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood
will be on their own heads.
If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both
he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be
among you.
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to
death, and you must kill the animal.
If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it,
kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their
blood will be on their own heads.
If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or
his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be
cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his sister and
will be held responsible.
If a man lies with a woman during her monthly period and has
sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and
she has also uncovered it. Both of them must be cut off from their people.
Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your
mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of
you would be held responsible.
If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They
will be held responsible; they will die childless.
If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity; he
has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.
A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be
put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own
heads.
Ex:35:2: Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall
be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work
therein shall be put to death.
Lev 21: 9 If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a
prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 "When men strive together one with another, and
the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand
of him that smiteth him and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the
secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her"