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- From: alanf@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Alan M Feuerbacher)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 11:12:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.194045.28217@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec28.210451.6935@linus.mitre.org> <1992Dec29.214650.8703@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec29.214650.8703@nwnexus.WA.COM> pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne) writes:
- | ......
- |angnostic. I was relating the story of some prophet or other who, after
- |communing with god in the wilderness comes back into town, wherupon he
- |is teased by children. The prophet calls upon god to punish them, and
- |god send wild animals to kill them, and they are devoured.
- |My friend claims "I've read the whole bible and that story isn't in it".
- |I am pretty sure it is, but I'm not really qualified to dispute him. I
- |don't seem to have a bible anymore, and rejected church & sunday school
- |at an early age. My bible knowledge is therefore fairly thin.
- |Can anybody nail this one down for me?
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- 2 Kings 2:23-24: From there he [Elisha] went up to Bethel. As he
- was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and
- jeered at him, saying, "Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!"
- He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name
- of the LORD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and
- mangled forty-two of the children. (Tanakh)
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- Alan Feuerbacher
- alanf@atlas.pen.tek.com
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