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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.215253.26727@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1993Jan2.031043.2988@arden.linet.org>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 21:52:53 GMT
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- Joe Beiter (joeb@arden.linet.org) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec31.162350.7234@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mik
- e A. McAngus) writes:
- : >Joe Beiter (joeb@arden.linet.org) wrote:
- : >: Me personally? Hell no I think its damm harsh. What sane human being cou
- ld
- : >: stand up and say "I think you should die because you thought of 'doing' Mr
- s.
- : >: Henderson"? (knowing full well I thought of it myself).
- : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : >
- : >So, if I never thought of "doing" Mrs. Henderson (I'm assuming we are talkin
- g
- : >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.
-
- A neat sidestep of the implicit question. Given my above scenario, am I
- justified in executing the man who commitied adultery with Mrs. Henderson?
- Why or why not.
-
- :
- : >: God (of The Bible) is not like us. You're talking a different set of scal
- es
- : >: 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 m
- ore
- : >humane as peoples philosophical basis expands.
- :
- : relativity.
-
- Duh! I must be really stupid, could you expand your one word reply.
-
- :
- : >I'm "convinced Hes (sic) not there" because he has never given me any eviden
- ce
- : >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
- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear it
- The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
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