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- From: tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Ren and Stimpy's Love Child)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Bible says abortion is murder? WHERE?
- Message-ID: <5641@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 06:40:48 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.211240.27882@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Jul18.192704.2347@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Jul18.224034.23029@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul20.001531.1356@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <5628@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> <NUGE.92Jul24114732@newport.med.ge.com>
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- In article <NUGE.92Jul24114732@newport.med.ge.com> nuge@newport.med.ge.com (James A. Nugent) writes:
- >In article <5628@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> tanj@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
- >(Ren and Stimpy's Love Child) writes:
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- > "If, however, [a man strikes his male or female slave witha rod and]
- > the slave survives for a day or two [before dying] he is not to be
- > punished, since the slave is his own property."
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- > I think (hope) our standards of morality and "property" have evolved
- >beyond the Code of the Covenant in Exodus. What do you think?
-
- Well, the New Testament doesn't. The New Testament, according to
- fundamentalists, is the only thing that can amend or change Old Testament
- Law. And the New Testament, in the form of a letter from Paul, thinks
- slavery is A-OK and that slaves should obey their masters.
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- >> My friend kept on saying, "The Church says... the Church says..."
- >> but that shouldn't play for fundamentalists. Where's the biblical
- >> precedent?
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- > Got me. I don't consider myself a fundamentalist.
-
- Well, that was my intended audience. Oh well, thanks for playing.
-
- --Teddi
- --------------Another Catholic School Survivor (12 years!)--------------
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