Likewise the New Testament--Revelation--altho in general Christian
bloody-mindedness had to wait until they had the power to exercise it.
Mark
At 08:19 AM 9/27/2001 +1000, you 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.
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>Alison
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>Candice wrote:
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>> 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/)--
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Candice
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