VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1358156521|CONTENT|Wow. After last week&#039;s TFTD on silence, we have now moved on to speechlessness. The cherry-picking and selectiveness you point out is shocking in itself, but so is the sheer arrogance of a man suggesting that the bible has anything whatsoever to offer on the subject of rape. The OT is actually fairly consistent on the subject - rape is theft, theft of another man&#039;s property and rights.

Billings&#039;s view of the bible is that it must be right, even when it is wrong. So he has to invent a story about these &quot;difficult bits&quot; being somehow little parables, even though there is no evidence whatsoever to support this assertion. This way he can maintain his morality, kindly provided to him by the secular society he lives in, while still thinking that the bible is the source of it all. His method of distinguishing between direct instructions, metaphors and parables is to overlay his own morals onto it. This makes it both true and useless, as it refelcts nothing but his own opinion.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.228, 217.36.222.79, 10.37.47.204|MODERATIONFLAG|