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- From: johnchad@triton.unm.edu (jchadwic)
- Subject: re: Quote from John Calvin (1509-1564)
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:19:11 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- >"The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already
- >a human being and it is a most monstrous crime to rob it of the
- >life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more
- >horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because
- >a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely
- >to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before
- >it has come to light."
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- I am surprised that ANYONE would use John Calvin as any sort of moral
- guide to life. Calvin had Michael Servetus burned at the stake for
- heresy over the writing of the book "On the errors of the trinity".
- The theology of Calvin has, in my view, done more damage to the name
- of Jesus than almost any theology before or since.
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- --john chadwick johnchad@triton.unm.edu
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