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To: Mrs. Don-o
The deliberate (directly intended, planned, targeted) infliction of severe pain or fear on any creature, human or animal, as an end in itself or as a means to an end, is morally wrong, and to compare it even remotely or ironically to Baptism, is a sacrilege.

Even if there were no moral objections whatsoever to waterboarding, it would still be sacrilegious to equate it to sacred baptism, just as it would be sacrilegious to equate my morning shower or a dip in the jacuzzi to unwind with sacred baptism.

103 posted on 04/30/2014 2:11:06 PM PDT by Flame Retardant (If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism: Ronald Reagan)
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To: Flame Retardant

[Even if there were no moral objections whatsoever to waterboarding, it would still be sacrilegious to equate it to sacred baptism, just as it would be sacrilegious to equate my morning shower or a dip in the jacuzzi to unwind with sacred baptism.]

You know as much about what is sacrilege as you know about baptism.

Origin of baptism

From the New Testament Greek Lexicon:

Definition
to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one’s self, bathe
to overwhelm

The word baptism has a meaning separate from what you believe is your so called “sacred baptism.”

Libs sure like to pretend piety. But they have no idea what it really means.


172 posted on 04/30/2014 8:37:28 PM PDT by Waryone
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