[Matt R.]

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That's where you claimed to get your education from. Also, you seem to lack knowledge of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and you didn't even know who the Midianites were before you looked it up. This is bread-and-butter stuff if you're looking at Christianity from different perspectives.

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I've addressed my "lack of knowledge" of those books in a previous post. And yes, I got my education from a school affiliated with the Catholic church. Not a single one of my teachers were nuns or religious fanatics. They were all extremely grounded in fact and history. You cannot, I repeat CANNOT, claim that the education I received was biased because the teachers I learned from were affiliated in some way with with the church. This is like saying that religious education from a Ph.D. in religious studies at Notre Dame is biased because he's affiliated with a Catholic school. It's just utter nonsense.

As for your "biology" analogy. No, it's more like me having studied biology, yet after 10 years away from the field I have to look up some of the properties of cytoplasm because I haven't seen it for so long. Yet another failed analogy in an attempt to rationalize your distorted view that you have a "superior" education in religion.


The rest of your long reply appears to be manipulating my wording to claim I said stuff I never said, or at the very least taking something I said to the absolute extreme and thereby distorting the meaning. There are several points that can be addressed by simply re-reading my old posts without trying to stretch the meaning to how you see fit.

A couple small points.... A lot of your arguments seem to be against the actions of Moses. I never claimed Moses was perfect. Again, a lot of his actions were probably "standard" back then (no, I'm not saying that means they were okay, which I'm sure you will pretend I did). Just because a character in the Bible did something does not mean Christianity views it as morally right today. The Bible tells a lot of stories... sometimes people did bad things... imagine that!

The rest of your post I don't feel like delving into. Most of it is utter nonsense that I've already addressed.