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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031604.16345@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec29.214650.8703@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:16:04 GMT
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- Peter C. Crayne (pcrayne@halcyon.com) wrote:
- : 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?
-
- 2Kings 2:23-24. This tells how Elisha, the prophet who succeeded Elija, curses
- some small boys who tease him and then "two she-bears came out of the woods and
- tore fourty-two of the children to pieces."
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- Mike McAngus | As if I needed Another time consuming hobby.
- (mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org) |
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