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To: FredZarguna
As to your putative "refutation" not a single one of your verses instructs Chrisitans to subjugate, maim, or murder non-believers.
These are from the King James Version of the Bible, recognized by virtually all Protestants as the revealed and reinforced word of God:

Exodus Chapter 35:

2: Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Leviticus Chapter 20:

2: Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

9: For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother

27: A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus Chapter 24:

16: And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy, Chapter 13:

5: And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy, Chapter 17:

2: If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

3: And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4: And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

5: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

-Eric

85 posted on 03/18/2003 7:57:42 PM PST by E Rocc
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To: E Rocc
These are from the King James Version of the Bible, recognized by virtually all Protestants as the revealed and reinforced word of God:

Though fallen Catholic turned agnostic, it's quite clear that I still know a good bit more about Protestantism than thou. But, since you're evidently quite thick, I shall lay this out for you in excruciating detail:

Exodus Chapter 35:

Not operative.

Leviticus Chapter 20:

Not operative.

Leviticus Chapter 24:

Not operative.

Deuteronomy, Chapter 13:

Not operative.

Deuteronomy, Chapter 17:

Not operative.

In fine and in sum, not one of the verses cited by you is binding upon any Christian. They were superseded by [among many others] this one:

"You must love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets, also."

Now, I don't own a King James Bible, but I do believe the translation of Luke 22:37-40 runs roughly the same. To imply as you clearly do, that any Protestant would use any of these verses as a justification for killing a practictioner is so unspeakably bogus that I wonder why you wasted the time to actually type such a ridiculous posting.

Now go away. I really have much better ways to spend my mortality than to differ with every naif who's just fallen off the back of his Volvo. You just keep on believing that Islam is a religion of peace, and when your mother, or your brother, or your kids get blown to smithereens, you can console yourself with the knowledge that five or six centuries ago some misguided Chrisitans would probably have done the same thing.

88 posted on 03/18/2003 8:47:21 PM PST by FredZarguna
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