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Is it accepted religious teaching to shoot people who don't stand for the Star Spangled Banner?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33578points) September 12th, 2016

Why is it always Alabama?

Why is the Baptists?

Why the intolerance for other views?

Why the immediate need for violence?

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chyna's avatar

There are crazies in all walks of life, not just religious folks in Alabama.

JLeslie's avatar

I have a friend on Facebook ranting about this. It’s so annoying. what’s wrong with people? These horrible rants just give the people they are angry with more publicity.

ragingloli's avatar

It is an extension of the biblical teaching to kill those of a different belief.
So, nothing shocking there.

filmfann's avatar

I am a Baptist, and I am embarrassed by this.
It is unpatriotic not to stand for the National Anthem. It is also unpatriotic to deny others their choice not to.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Man. Ray Rice, pro football player, punches his girl friend so hard in an elevator that she loses consciousness. Outrage? 0.

I just looked up a list of pro athletes convicted of committing crimes. Unbelievable. From murder to rape. Outrage? 0.

But let a man exercise his Constitutional right to freedom of expression and the idiots lose their minds.

ragingloli's avatar

I doubt that openly calling for the murder of others falls under “freedom of expression”.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I wasn’t referring to that, @ragingloli. I was referring to the guy who didn’t stand for the Star Spangled Banner.

CWOTUS's avatar

Boy, we could really clean up at the next Olympics if that were true.

rojo's avatar

“The Bible has been used for centuries by Christians as a weapon of control. To read it literally is to believe in a three-tiered universe, to condone slavery, to treat women as inferior creatures, to believe that sickness is caused by God’s punishment and that mental disease and epilepsy are caused by demonic possession. When someone tells me that they believe the Bible is the ‘literal and inerrant word of God,’ I always ask, ‘Have you ever read it’?” Bishop John Shelby Spong.

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