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--- Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not long ago I read Deuteronomy, looking for
> something that wasn't there.
> What was there were many bloody incitements against
> those who were not
> God's people and various ferocious reminders that
> Jehovah is a jealous God.
> And much about enemies being laid waste utterly
> until third or fourth
> generations and being blasted off the face of the
> earth, &c, and how the
> Lord will brook no disobedience nor deviation from
> his Laws. Nothing along
> the lines of "suffer the little children to come
> unto me" or "turn the
> other cheek" there. The Old Testament is full of
> such things, and it is
> worth remembering that too.
>
> Alison
>
> Candice wrote:
>
> > Lawrence: You've been making some excellent
> points in your series of
> >posts, I think, and I very much appreciate your
> insistence on the need for
> >attention to language--rhetoric, political or
> otherwise, and the rhetorical
> >moves made here on this list, in Washington, and
> elsewhere--as very much at
> >issue in discussions of/debates over our actions,
> personal or political.
> >What struck me about your words here is their
> chiming with a pair of
> >passages from the Koran--which I'm reading (in
> translation, of course) for
> >the first time (if anyone else is seeking an online
> translation, here's a
> >link to one site: http://www.islam.tc/quran/)--
> >
> >008.025 And guard yourselves against a chastisement
> which cannot fall
> >exclusively on those of you who are wrong-doers,
> and know that Allah is
> >severe in punishment.
> >
> >008.057 If thou comest on them in the war, deal
> with them so as to strike
> >fear in those who are behind them, that haply they
> may remember.
> >
> >
> >I offer these words in no spirit of acrimony or
> provocation, nor as a
> >challenge to Lawrence or anyone else, but simply
> because they chilled me and
> >made me weep.
> >
> >Candice
>
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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