Well,
fellow believers in God's literal word written in the bible, we do have a
problem, haven't we? General David Patraeus has confessed to committing
adultery with another man's wife, and the bible clearly tells us what we need
to do. We need to stone them.
Deuteronomy
22:22 - If a man is caught sleeping with another man's wife, both must die,
the man who has slept with her and the woman herself.
Nothing
could be clearer. It's clearly far clearer than any references to gays and
lesbians, contraception, abortion, or those other pubic concerns we all have.
Pat
Robertson excused General Patraeus saying "he's a man", so he
obviously doesn't take the word of God seriously. "She's a good-looking
woman and he's a lonely man," he says. Aren't we all a bit lonely, Pat?
Nor
has President Barack Obama raised a pebble against General Patraeus to uphold
his belief in God's word, so we cannot depend upon him to correct the wrong.
He'd rather lob missiles on people half a world away.
If
we don't obey this command, fellow believers that the bible is God's literal
word, what are we to do?
How
are we to counter those who say the bible is a document from an iron-age
society that depicts its (necessarily limited) world view?
Or
that it was written by people who were merely human, and so they got some
things right, like God is Love, and other things wrong, like the sun going
around the earth.
I
suggest we all meet at our nearest rock quarry and discuss the actions we need
to take to uphold our fundamentalist beliefs.
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