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Archae

(46,340 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 12:49 PM Apr 2015

Bryan Fischer decides to add to the Bible...

Where in the Bible does it say there was no death penalty until the imaginary Flood?

Fischer: Noah's Flood Was The Result Of Society Not Using The Death Penalty

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 4/10/2015 10:22 am

On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer made the case that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death following his conviction for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing in the most Fischer-esque way possible: explaining that Noah's Flood was the result of society not using the death penalty.

As Fischer explained it, "God had prohibited the death penalty prior to the Flood" and it resulted in so much chaos and bloodshed that God was left with no choice but to kill almost all of mankind.

"When people say we ought to just get rid of the death penalty, we just ought to get rid of capital punishment and society would be so much better off," he said, "well, we tried that; we tried that from the creation to Adam until the Flood ... And what happened? It was chaos. It was vigilante justice. And people began killing other people simply because they got insulted or because they got injured or because they got wounded. So there was no sense of proportionality, justice was a matter of each man talking the law into his own hands. It was total chaos and the result was the entire world had become so corrupt that God had to wipe the whole thing out and start over":

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-noahs-flood-was-result-society-not-using-death-penalty

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Bryan Fischer decides to add to the Bible... (Original Post) Archae Apr 2015 OP
Omniscence? Dale Neiburg Apr 2015 #1
Is he saying God made a mistake? packman Apr 2015 #2
The Buybull is full of examples of gawd fucking up. blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #3
Let he who is without sin inject safeinOhio Apr 2015 #4
If there truly were a just god Kelvin Mace Apr 2015 #5
I don't think the bible says what Fischer says it says Adsos Letter Apr 2015 #6
Fischer is fond of simply making stuff up. Archae Apr 2015 #7
Yes. When I just now re-read what I posted Adsos Letter Apr 2015 #8
God is a dunce? GeorgeGist Apr 2015 #9
Have to have a human sacrifice to prevent global warming? Downwinder Apr 2015 #10
Oh goody...let's make a list of candidates........ dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #11
What? Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2015 #12
 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
5. If there truly were a just god
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 01:13 PM
Apr 2015

the afterlife would involve being judged according to how you judged others.

Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
8. Yes. When I just now re-read what I posted
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 01:28 PM
Apr 2015

I realized that I should have added "On this or anything else."

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