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- From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Genital-grabbing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.200846.12626@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 20:08:46 GMT
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- Martin Dougiamas (martin@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
- : I was just browsing through the bible (Good News version) and came
- : across this little gem:
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- : "If two men are having a fight and the wife of one tries to
- : help her husband by grabbing hold of the other man's
- : genitals, show her no mercy; cut off her hand."
- : - Deuteronomy 25:11-12
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- I had to look this up myself, I just couldn't believe it. Yup, there
- it is. Was this a common way to break up a fight back then or what?
- What an odd thing to put into a religious document.
-
- An eye for an eye, a hand for a ball! :)
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- Carl Christensen
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