What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?

CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."

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Re:Really?

[CannonballHead]

by using parts of the bible people don't quote to justify slavery, stoning, and killing. As part of the essay, it uses Old Testament text that seems to justify owning slaves as long as they are not from your own country.

There are reasons for that. It's called "context."

If you want to argue whether or not slavery has ever been ok according to the Bible, that's one thing; if you want to apply what laws that the Bible states were given to a particular nation at a particular time in history for a very specific purpose to current nations and thus show how the Bible condones modern day slavery, then you have major contextual issues. It would be similar to me taking a quote from a 3rd century Greek philosopher about how Greeks back then should dress for war, applying it to modern warfare, and claiming "how stupid Greek philosophy was! They expected people to fight in their tanks with skirts!" Or whatever.

Re:Really?

[Reaperducer]

Except that this is not justification for slavery. It is simply teaching folks to do the best that they can in the circumstances that they find themselves. The writer understood that this is not a perfect world, but that as followers of Christ we are to be the best example we can be.

Shhh! Don't bother confusing the orthodox athiest Slashdotters with facts. They're all already experts on religion and politics because they watch Family Guy and The Daily Show.