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To: ThirdEye who wrote (7054)	10/23/2001 4:34:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Who among us today could be considered a "follower of the letter of the law" whether the Torah or New Testament? These texts contain behaviors, beliefs that would be considered barbaric today, yet only the most rigorous fundies would call us less than real Jews or Christians. > The people who believe these texts [the bible and koran] actually do think that they are literally something spake by the big fella hisself!! They forget that there have been translations, interpretations, printing presses, editors, changes, and just who actually did first put pen to paper. They really do take it literally. So, even though most or even nearly everyone takes the text with a grain of salt and they pick and choose what they think might still be reasonable for their purposes today, it only takes a few people to believe the following to get WTC scale mayhem. <"Once the Sacred Months are past, (and they refuse to make peace) you may kill the idol worshipers when you encounter them, punish them, and resist every move they make. If they repent and observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat), you shall let them go. GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful." > That's not sunday school picnic stuff. Ignore it at your peril. If it's not part of actual Moslem belief, perhaps they would like to expunge it from all editions of the texts they give their offspring to read. They could all buy new, official, improved versions without the calls to murder and mayhem. Mqurice