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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.145136.8538@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:51:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.214650.8703@nwnexus.WA.COM> pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne) writes:
- }Hi all. I am posting without first reading the FAQ! At least nobody on
- }this newsgroup is likely to tell me that I'll be smitten down with flame
- }for it. :-) (Except virtual flame, perhaps).
- }
- }Anyway, I was recently discussing religious matters with a friend who is
- }semi-religious. I havn't decided whether I'm a weak athiest or an
- }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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- Check Ezekiel. Those bibliophiles don't know there own book very well.
- The animals were bears, and he was being teased for being bald...
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