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- From: asper@sbctri.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
- Subject: Re: Flaming Conservative (Re: Liberals DO oppose First Amendment rights)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183628.16686@sbctri.sbc.com>
- Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St.Louis, MO
- References: <BxoBI8.39r@news.iastate.edu> <15NOV199221081276@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Nov16.171546.18854@csc.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:36:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.171546.18854@csc.ti.com> dpage@ra.csc.ti.com (Doug Page) writes:
- >
- >What did Abraham do?
- >
- >"Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the
- >altar there, and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac, and laid him on
- >the altar on top of the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took
- >the knife to slay his son." (Gen 22:9-10)
- >
- >Which of God's commandments do you propose are in conflict here?
-
- Not to nit-pick, but the Commandments (the Ten) don't appear until the book
- of Exodus. You have to figure that Abraham was doing what God told him to
- do, which, technically, is a Commandment. Right?
- Anyway, people often use Old Testament
- examples -- the "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and "eye for an
- eye" stuff -- to show how crazy and evil Christianity is. Fundamentalists
- notwithstanding, it's the New Testament -- the "treat others as you want them
- to treat you" stuff -- that is relevant to a discussion of (non-crazy-and-
- evil-Fundamentalist-jerkoffs) Christianity.
- Alan
-
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