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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1037000" data-attributes="member: 13032">I don't understand the reference re: "doing" and "saying" by St. Paul, but please remind me.  The Bible is full of quotes we use everyday, atheist and believer alike.  I love the Golden Rule, attributable to Jesus in the Bible.  I don't think he was the first to say it, but hey, he was Jesus, divine or not.  But it comes very close to a universal rule for living, again, for atheist and believer alike.It's an example of good things in the Bible.  There are many, and many of which I find comforting.  (I may still be experiencing the trauma of being raised Catholic, including grades 1 through 4 "taught" by nuns armed with rulers.....  Thankfully, I avoided the bad priests who destroyed so very many young lives.)There is also a lot of stuff in the Bible about how to treat your slaves, homophobia, and misogyny - and the perfectly ok killing of kids if they sass parents back.  So context is everything.  To a reasonable extent though, a sports forum or any non-religious forum, is best if it sticks to a secular POV.(For anyone interested in reading an honest accounting of Christianity in America, check out the short book by Sam Harris - "Letter to a Christian Nation.")Yikes.  I'm done, honestly.  Is Love's contact done yet?</blockquote>

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