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To: Ilaine who wrote (68660)	12/26/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Your new priest sounds very interesting and positive, Blue. If all (or even most) Christians were living lives of poverty and following the moral values and political beliefs of Jesus, I do not believe that Christianity would have the brutal and divisive impact on history that it has. Witches, or rather women, would never have been burned. Six million Jews would not have died in World War II. The Ku Klux Klan would not have burned crosses on the lawns of black people. The western world would be a much more radical--and yet at the same time far more gentle--place. Merry Happy Everything to you, too!!!

To: Ilaine who wrote (68660)	12/26/1999 2:01:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

CB, about your new priest... << He said that the death penalty is contrary to God's will, because the death penalty kills people, which is murder, and contrary to the commandments... >> How then does he explain Bible verses like this? Deuteronomy 20 10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. As you know, this is but one example where God directs the Israelites to kill. Have you ever had verses like this read to open a sermon? If not, why not? Del

To: Ilaine who wrote (68660)	12/26/1999 3:52:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Excellent, but maybe a little broad. "Christ never tried to make anyone feel guilty." What about those money-changers in the Temple? What about the Canaanite woman? (whom he called a dog).