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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Bible philosophy is like any philosophy. Why you can post Thomas Jefferson quotes and Plato quotes but not Jesus quotes sometimes befuddles me.
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For me that says it all. If you consider a saying wise put it in marble and hang it on your wall. I don't care who said what as long as it's clever (I'm rather machiavellistic that way). I got Bible quotes, Talmud quotes, Veda quotes, Gandhi quotes, ML King quotes, Clausewitz quotes, Cicero quotes, Plato quotes, ... (endless list) present to make clever remarks in any situation and as long as they make sense and are not offensive in an extremely obvious way (telling "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" to someone from Athens) I use them. Technically the whole world should now hate me or at least be very offended -am I getting that right? - the Moslems for using Bible quotes, the Christians for using Veda quotes, the pacifists for using Clausewitz, the white people for quoting Dr. King, the descendants of Catilina for quoting Cicero and so on...
Point is: "Thou shalt not kill" is pretty smart no matter if you put Old Testimony, Evangelium, Buddha, Gandhi, King, Bertha von Suttner, ... as a source.