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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21283)	6/25/2004 3:59:15 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81518

> God is about power, ruthless and arbitrary, not about sociology and Marxism, those are human constructs. In fact, it's all in the way one "translates" the Bible: worldnetdaily.com >>The 104th archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams – leader of the Church of England – describes it is a book of "extraordinary power," but admitted many would be startled by its content. "Instead of condemning fornicators, adulterers and 'abusers of themselves with mankind'," says Ruth Gledhill, the London Times religious affairs correspondent, "the new version of his first letter to Corinth has St. Paul advising Christians not to go without sex for too long in case they get 'frustrated.'" << And, naturally, all perversions, especially with little boys, are "approved".

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21283)	7/5/2004 6:37:27 AM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81518

Searle, re:spengler <the Spanish Inquisition...People do nasty things not because they are negligent or bloody-minded, but rather because they cannot avoid doing them. That is why we call such things tragic. Spain's inquisitors were not the horror-movie sadists of popular myth, but sad little functionaries seeking to prevent the sort of religious war that plagued Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.> Perhaps the same for the american prison guards at Abu Ghraib. Merely seeking to prevent an iraqi civil war which would be such a humanitarian disaster (not to mention how it might interfere with the flow of oil). john