To: Dr. Eckleburg
"The divorce problem will be solved in a society under God's law because any spouse guilty of capital crimes (adultery, homosexuality, Sabbath desecration, etc.) would be swiftly executed, thus freeing the other part to remarry" (Mark Rushdoony, Chalcedon Report #252, 1986).
To: Right Wing Professor
LOL. A snippet does not a defense make.
I doubt Mark R. advocates death for straying spouses.
But it would do you good, I have no doubt, to read the entire work from which this one sentence apparently was plucked.
Patrick Henry: "Give me death."
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09/15/2005 5:38:10 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray)
To: Right Wing Professor
"The divorce problem will be solved in a society under God's law because any spouse guilty of capital crimes (adultery, homosexuality, Sabbath desecration, etc.) would be swiftly executed, thus freeing the other part to remarry" (Mark Rushdoony, Chalcedon Report #252, 1986).
I never heard of the Mark Rushdoony, however, the Heavenly Father divorced Israel ....
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Of course for those who are Biblically limited this is a spiritual divorce.
So whomever this Rushdonny person is, he is Biblically illiterate claiming a resolution to the problem of divorce calling for capital punishment. The Heavenly Father never pronounced a capital punishment upon Israel or Judah for that matter.
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