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Originally Posted by activeco
Rationality.
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Non sequitur
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Why not eating people? Why not slavery?
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Non-responsive, irrelevant &
non sequitur. Neither cannibalism nor slavery are the issue at hand.
To repeat, the proposition, and thus the burden of proof, is yours.
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Originally Posted by activeco
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
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I would suggest that, rather than looking to modern translations of the Christian Bible, you turn to the original, in its original language. Even the King James Rev. version, with its use of the word "dominion," is far better than the one you here quote from.
The original meaning of what was interpreted as "dominion" is not that of an arbitrary & capricious authority, but rather one that carries with it a commensurate responsibility of stewardship. This in the same sense as the relationship between parent and child.
That many use Scripture as means of attempting to justify their claims of authority without responsibility does not serve to make it so.
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"People aren't the same as seeds. You made people to be like you, and then you created all plants and animals for them."
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Quoted from what?