Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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    I think even from a christian perspective the right thing to do wouldnt be to just accept a collection of scriptures as absolute truths (or to be precise the exact interpretation of those scriptures by the leaders of the group they happened to get into).

    If you dont examine your beliefs with regard to historic evidence, and critical thinking you would have no way of knowing if there was some work by people (or if you believe in that even satan) when the current biblical canon was set up or when jewish tradition formed the old testament, etc.

    Church leaders obviously dont talk about this that much, but being a follower of jesus and a good christian doesnt require one tho view the whole bible and one specific reading of it as a unified work of truth.

    I dont know your exact stance on this topic, but in my experience there are too many people that dont examine the way current day teachings of their community got formed throughout history and just treat it like if god revealed it himself to them here and now.

    If you happen to be interested here is a video by a yewish guy (though he views the bible from a historical viewpoint not in an orthodox way) exploring what we currently know about the bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqSkXmFun14

    Hope i didnt sound disrespectful, i just like when discourse makes us revise our deeper beliefs.

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        Just report and let the admin sort him out.

        Is that your version of “kill 'em all and let God sort it out”? No, I don’t “prohibit” anything. My point was just that this is a Christian organization following the Bible, which is to be expected of them.