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7. The point was made by the OP about cherry-picking. You can cherry-pick anything you want
Tue Feb 27, 2024, 08:24 PM
Feb 2024

about any writing and use it to justify what you wish.

In fact, not one of the books I mentioned were written in English and, not only can they be cherry-picked, but they can be misinterpreted by the translators. Much less so for modern books by Hitler and Marx but especially by ancient books translated over and over again over 1000+ years from a time when few could read and write.

Anyone that cherry-picks the Bible is doubly stupid because they don't even know what the original texts would really have said, given that somehow humans knew exactly their God's original words. The narrower the selection, the worse the odds are that the meaning or the words are correct. The King James "Version" (that word is used in every copy I have seen) wasn't written until 1600 and was only approved by the English Church, not universally by all Christians. It was translated by less than 50 men with their own individual prejudices and overseen by the King and his church with theirs.

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