Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Challenge to Humanists (No Kimbe - (nf) Message-ID: <11300026@ea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 13:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.11300026 Posted: Fri Jun 8 13:51:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 00:22:21 EDT References: <805@akgua.UUCP> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:akgua:-80500:ea:11300026:000:850 Nf-From: ea!mwm Jun 8 12:51:00 1984 #R:akgua:-80500:ea:11300026:000:850 ea!mwm Jun 8 12:51:00 1984 /***** ea:net.religion / akgua!rjb / 9:06 am Jun 5, 1984 */ It is not the act of taking life itself that is abhorrent (sp?) in the Judaeo-Christian system but whether it is deserved or not. Murder (i.e. the shedding of innocent blood) has always been among the most heinous offenses in the system. Bob Brown {...clyde!akgua!rjb} AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga (404) 447-3784 ... Cornet 583-3784 /* ---------- */ "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Since we're all sinners (or so I've been told), none of us are innocent. Hence, you can't commit murder, all you can do is over-punish someone. That's one of the problems with the bible: it makes nice, grand statements that we should all follow ("commit no murder", "do not steal", etc.), but doesn't bother defining the hard terms: murder, steal, etc.