Explanation

Submitted by Charlotte (United States), Apr 25, 2007 at 01:07

What I am talking about is the part of the Bible where Jesus is criticized by the pharisees for not washing his hands prior to eating. He turns and rebuttals that they are also hypocrites for they fail to kill their disobedient children. Jesus had many teachings that were not so moral by today's standards, killing a child for disobediance is merely one of them.

I bring this up because I tire of reading Christians on this board who hold up their theism as the pinnacle of righteousness while criticizing other religions. The bottom line is, both Christianity and Islam is filled with a host of immortality and to claim one is wholely superior to the other is to only assert one's ignorance of the scriptures.

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