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- From: joeb@arden.linet.org (Joe Beiter)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.031043.2988@arden.linet.org>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 03:10:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.023231.26314@arden.linet.org> <1992Dec31.162350.7234@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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- In article <1992Dec31.162350.7234@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
- >Joe Beiter (joeb@arden.linet.org) wrote:
- >: Me personally? Hell no I think its damm harsh. What sane human being could
- >: stand up and say "I think you should die because you thought of 'doing' Mrs.
- >: Henderson"? (knowing full well I thought of it myself).
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >So, if I never thought of "doing" Mrs. Henderson (I'm assuming we are talking
- >about sex with a married woman who is not your wife) then I am justified in
- >executing the man who did "do" Mrs. Henderson (assuming he is not Mr.
- >Henderson)?
- >
- >As you point out, no sane person could condone such "justice".
-
- naw my point was adultery=death, thinking of it=adultery, therfore thinking
- of it=death. I was pointing out that our sense of justice falls far short
- of what the Bible says God's is.
-
- >: God (of The Bible) is not like us. You're talking a different set of scales
- >: here.
- >
- >If the "justice" is immoral by our limited standards, how can it be moral by a
- >"different set of scales"? From human experience, justice tends to become more
- >humane as peoples philosophical basis expands.
-
- relativity.
-
- >I'm "convinced Hes (sic) not there" because he has never given me any evidence
- >that he is there. Nor has any other diety given me such evidence.
-
- That doesn't help me in particular but I respect your 'non-observance'.
-
- >Mike McAngus | You are a fluke of the Universe. You have no
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