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muder.
I don’t understand this need to demonize your opposition (and here I’m
speaking to both sides of the abortion debate). Believe it or not,
different people can come to different opinions about an issue without
one side being evil or mislead. Not all pro-lifers are book burning
anti-sex Inquisitioners. Not all pro-choicers are amoral baby
killers. The sooner both sides realise this, the sooner we can see if
there is any sort of compromise on this issue to be found.
-David "ZZYZX" Steinberg (dsteinbe@emmy.nmsu.edu) "Time for Timer"
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Reference 161346
From lneff@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
Date Tue, Aug 2, 1994 1:24 AM
In article , Jim C wrote:
>Hill apparently believed that the Bible says its OK to kill people under
>certain circumstances.
>
One does not have to "believe" that the bible says so; it is indeed a fact
that the bible specifies certain conditions and provides narratives and
other statements which demonstrate that people may be killed. Here are
a few (from the old testament):
Killing of warriors and certain civilians in war;
Stoning of adulterers;
Killing of practicing male (not female) homosexuals;
Killing of those who desecrate the sabbath;
Killing of pregnant women and of children who are part of a nation or tribe
characterized as god’s enemies (see Hosea);
Killing of a newborn for the sin of his adulterous parents (David and
Bathsheba);
Killing of entire extended families for the sins of the patriarch (see the
history of the northern kingdom of Israel -- even though children are not
to be punished for the sins of the parents...
Just think of the many people we’d lose (born, unborn, and newly born)
if the bible were practiced according to what it says -- that is, when
it says something consistently...