Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:24 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > >>On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> >>>On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:06:11PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: >>>> >>>>>>True, the Koran just invites to kill your ennemy bloodily, that's very >>>>>>different... >>>>> >>>>>Thats wrong, thats just an interpretion. >>>> >>>>I wonder how could text be written such that the question wether it invites >>>>to kill someone bloodily is open to interpretation. >>> >>>Are there other places in the Koran that say different things? >>> >>>An example from the Bible: the Old Testament says that homosexuals >>>must be stoned to death, >> >>Nonsence, people were to be stoned for many things, but homosexuality was >>not one of them. > > > You're right. It doesn't say "stoned". However, "they shall > surely be put to death", is, how shall we say, a superset of > "stoned to death". Therefore, I was close enough. > > Leviticus 20 > > 13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, > both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely > be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. > That's not anti-homosexual, that's anti-bisexual. "as he lieth with a woman" implies that he has to lie with women the same way as with men for it to be applicable. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>++++$L++++$*-- P+>++$ L+++(++++)$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e->++++ h* r? z* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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