Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Yellow Press in SciFi? Message-ID: <20980068@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:25:04 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980068 Posted: Mon Jan 14 20:25:04 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 03:42:54 EST References: <4918@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 39 How can anyone fail to see that the Bible forbids witch burnings and the murder of heretics? It's as clear as the nose on your face. No one who really studies the Bible could possibly participate in a witch burning or a lynching of heretics. Those people just aren't Christians. For instance, consider the early Israelites, who were the vessels for the first pure revelation from God. Every so often, a few would turn up who converted to another religion. But do you think those Israelites, under the command of God's own prophet Moses, had them killed? He did? Well, maybe that's not a good example. Let's look in the Mosaic law instead, I know it says something about witches there, something loving, kind, and tolerant -- ah, here it is, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." No, it must have been something else I was thinking of -- I just can't find the commandment to tolerate apostacy and witchcraft right now, that's all. I'm sure it's in there. Ah, here's a good story that shows what I mean. These two priests of some other religion were around, and one of the prophets decided to arrange a friendly contest, to show who was really boss. The two priests' god couldn't light a carcass that was left up on top of a hill, but old Yod-Hay-Vau-Hay showed those suckers! He lit the thing right up! And then the people took the two priests and rent them limb fro -- oops, I forgot that part. Look, I'm sure there are plenty of stories and commandments in the Old Testament about how we should tolerate other religions, and tolerate divergences of belief within the religion of God. There must be. After all, witch-burnings and the Inquisition were bad things, right? So they must be against the Bible. I'll let you know as soon as I find the quotes that prove that. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.