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Subject: Re: Re: Challenge to Humanists (No Kimbe - (nf)
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/***** 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
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"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.