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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: How much should we read?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.072738.20808@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1993Jan21.211926.3642@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan22.034815.19776@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:27:38 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.034815.19776@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen) writes:
- >Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu) wrote:
- >: A religion is barbaric if it teaches barbaric things. If it teaches
- >: non-barbaric things based on misinterpretations of a Bible that, interpreted
- >: properly, should instead be read as teaching barbaric things... well, that
- >: doesn't count.
- >: If the scholar discovers that the Bible teaches cruelty, all that means is tha
- >: modern Judaism has made a mistake in giving passages a non-cruel reading, but
- >: it does _not_ mean that Judaism teaches cruelty. Anti-semitism probably _is_
- >: a motive for such a leap.
- >I don't see how someone could give Deuteronomy, Numbers, etc. (as posted
- >elsewhere) a 'non-cruel' reading.
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- Perhaps this is a failure of imagination on your part.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
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- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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