Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site we53.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!bmt From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas ) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: War and Death Message-ID: <255@we53.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 14:52:34 EDT Article-I.D.: we53.255 Posted: Wed Oct 24 14:52:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 04:04:21 EDT References: <856@ihuxp.UUCP> <272@umcp-cs.UUCP> <865@ihuxp.UUCP><190@calmasd.UUCP>, <249@we53.UUCP> <682@utastro.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 18 >It works like this. If you claim to be a Christian, but I don't approve >of you then you are not a *real* Christian. As a consequence Christianity >can do no wrong. > >The above syllogism can, and has been, applied to almost every religion >and secular ideology in existence. I was waiting for that, with baited breath(?). I don't know. all I can say is, *I* didn't do it, nobody I know personally did it, nor does orthodox Christianity prescribe such action (it's not in the Book). The Roman Catholic Church of that time and this does not match the description of the Church found in the Book, and it is on this basis, and this basis only, that I make such assertions. brain