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- From: dgraham@bmers30.bnr.ca (Douglas Graham)
- Subject: Re: How much should we read?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.183025.3995@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1993Jan21.211926.3642@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan22.034815.19776@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1993Jan22.072738.20808@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:30:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.072738.20808@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >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.
-
- Uh, yeah, that's the ticket. Or, as Noam Chomsky points out, if the scholar
- himself had been Jewish, he would have been branded a self-hating Jew. That
- pretty much covers off all the angles.
-
- >>I don't see how someone could give Deuteronomy, Numbers, etc. (as posted
- >>elsewhere) a 'non-cruel' reading.
- >
- >Perhaps this is a failure of imagination on your part.
-
- Or perhaps Ken, you are still incapable of objectively discussing
- this rather delicate matter. Perhaps it would be better if you
- didn't try.
- --
- Doug Graham dgraham@bnr.ca My opinions are my own.
-