Originally posted by moon1969Are you disagreeing with the tried and true policy which keeps Texas education ranked 48th in the US ?
Yeah, Republican Gov. Perry and the Texas Republican leadership regularly rely on prayer and Biblical stories to decide policy in areas of science, healthcare, personal freedoms, deciding about women, and governing decisions generally. The good old Republican Party. (They didn't listen to Jindal.)
Perry was probably consulting the same deity who he claimed told him to run for president in 2012. 🙄
Originally posted by joe beyserAny politician who uses "the bible says" as justification for legislation should be punched in the face.
I think you are just being paranoid. Do you think the bible thumpers are going to get you? Or do you just like putting down people that think differently than you?
Originally posted by moon1969And people like you rely on other belief systems to arrive at your conclusions.
Yeah, Republican Gov. Perry and the Texas Republican leadership regularly rely on prayer and Biblical stories to decide policy in areas of science, healthcare, personal freedoms, deciding about women, and governing decisions generally. The good old Republican Party. (They didn't listen to Jindal.)
Oh, but your belief system is right, while their's is wrong. I understand.
Originally posted by EladarWhen one belief system is based on a mountain of empirical evidence and sound scientific reasoning and the other is based pretty much solely on a book that was written hundreds and hundreds of years ago and interpretations of it, then yes the former belief system is right while the other is wrong.
And people like you rely on other belief systems to arrive at your conclusions.
Oh, but your belief system is right, while their's is wrong. I understand.
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperOur bankruptcy code has its roots in the Bible:
Any politician who uses "the bible says" as justification for legislation should be punched in the face.
At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD's release" (Deuteronomy 15:1-2).
The Constitution gives Congress the power to establish bankruptcy laws. Perhaps you should go stomp on the Framers' graves?
Originally posted by MoneyManMikeFirst of all, that bible quote doesn't specify bankruptcy does it? It says that you should be released of all debts every 7 years - where is the law that says that all debts are released every 7 years?
Our bankruptcy code has its roots in the Bible:At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD's release" (Deuteronomy 15:1-2).
If that were the case then 30 year mortgages would be pointless.
Even if that quote truly was the source of our bankruptcy law, should a proposal to change that term of 7 years to 8 be rejected because of the bible?
