To: Neocon who wrote (8839 ) 3/16/2001 12:31:56 PM From: E Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486 Let me be sure I've got this straight! You're congratulating the scriptures because they say if you're a Jew who ceases to be a Jew, you're no longer the spawn of Satan and person of the lie... and if you're a slave , you... well, you're still a slave, and no probleme; but you, too, can, as Paul promised, expect, in your lifetime, to live in the New Kingdom. (It would make sense to put up with your slavery until then.)... and if you're a woman , well, shut up in church* and don't get an abortion either before or after quickening, and we won't rub it in that you're a woman. (Oh, forget that part about the abortion before quickening; that proscription is a later wrinkle, isn't it!) "Tortured and self-serving"? It self-served Christians, dude. How "tortured" it was can be judged by who made, and in what numbers were made, the "interpretations" you now declare "tortured." By its multifarious deeds it shall be known, and by its omissions, and by its words. And by the deeds and omissions and words of its scriptures, representatives, spokespersons, adherents, authorities, missionaries, members, soldiers, faithful. That's all there is to know anything by. "From each according to his ability. To each according to his need." Is that what you think we should judge Communism by?* 1 Cor. 14:33-36 As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home.... So much for the great tolerance proved by your Galatians 3.