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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!bthoms
- From: bthoms@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: rec.nude
- Subject: Re: Christian nudists
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.135854.12190@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:58:54 +1300
- References: <BxMw86.9sL@ns1.nodak.edu> <ke75672@pro-harold.cts.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <ke75672@pro-harold.cts.com>, leed@pro-harold.cts.com (Lee Dronick) writes:
- >>I know some people (as above) are complaining that this discussion doesn't
- > belong here. However, I am very interested in examining the subject of
- > whether Christians may be nudists. I don't think we have gotten to the
- > heart of the issue yet. Perhaps we should look at all the references
- > which seem to *require* clothing and see if we can determine the underlying
- > reasons.<
- >
- > I actually dug out a Christian Bible on floppy disks that someone gave me
- > this summer. As soon I as I clear some space on my hard drive, I'll install
- > it and do some searches.
- While you're digging around on your disks, don't lose sight of the fact that
- nudism has only existed for a few decades (compared with a couple of thousand
- years' worth of biblical tradition). Nudists have done a whole lot in our time
- to create communities where nudity is significantly different than most
- situations where biblical writers might comment on it. IMHO the Bible doesn't
- say anything about nudists, feminists, lesbians & gays or a number of groups of
- people who are a sociological product of the modern world, therefore the whole
- argument needs to be re-interpreted.
-
- Brent Thomson, Waikato, NZ
-