The flood. Noah releases a dove, which brings the olive leaf. I remember from Sunday School that that was some sort of big symbolic deal, aside from the whole "Hooray! Dry land!" thing.
Oddly, there's no references to firebombing anything, though...
This is the weirdest combination of moral absolutism and moral relativism I've ever seen...
Maybe the reason that life that is taken was put here, was to be taken...
Sounds like one of the outtakes from Life of Brian.
Just a guess...but I'd bet doves were a big deal in Jewish custom of the time, given the prominent role the dove has in Genesis.
There's also a passage where God sends bears to rip apart 40 kids who are making fun of a bald guy. 2 Kings 2:23-24:
And then there's Psalms 137:9:
I'd say the Bible's a little...well...ambiguous on the subject.
Hey! I post insightful stuff sometimes...maybe once every 50...okay, 100 posts.
And hey...better they get their insight from me, rather than, say, ICE or BF...
Personally, while I doubt it, I'm tickled by the idea that maybe, just maybe, the media outlets up to and including national ones like ESPN, might be taking some of their cues from a crap throwing monkey.
That would explain the relative crappiness of the Bills coverage recently, if they're getting their material and insight from this online collection of mental midgets.
Actually, that was entierly not the point of the story of the money changers in the temple. The point was that one should not profit of worshipping the Lord, as they were doing.
So you'd have a point...if abortions were performed in churches.
And thanks for putting your usual partisan spin on what I said. It does work both ways, of course...it's equally usable evidence in vilifying the court for the "Bush Bad" crowd. Neither of which on its own establishes my point: it's null data. Without knowing the content of the requests it's impossible to vilify or exonerate either one.
The only thing it does do is put paid to the idea that FISA was basically a "rubber stamp", as some expressed here.
No, I was referring to your stated acceptance of the theory that FDR "let" the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor so he could openly go to war with them (and presumably Germany).
And commenting on the irony that you'll accept that egregiously stupid conspiracy, but insist Oswald acted alone...
So does that indicate unreasonable intransigence on the court's part in throwing out reasonable requests for wiretaps? Or unreasonable intransigence on the administration's part for insisting on unreasonable wiretaps?
That story is nearly meaningless unless you have some idea of what exactly was being asked for as compared to what was asked for and given in previous administrations. It proves nothing.