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And the Picts haven't been in battle in what, a thousand years? Mark At 02:15 PM 9/27/2001 -0600, you wrote: >>Doug Barbour wrote: >> >>> Those passages from the Koran, Candice: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> chill me too. >>> >>> But Jehovah has some to match them in the OT. >> >> Can you post some of them, Doug? I'd be very interested to see those >>matches. Thanks--Candice > >Ah, i just meant the tone, & maybe what Robin & others pointed to, that >anger at anyone not 'onside'. > >I'll shut up now, as I may have been misreading the messages above which >you posted originally. > >But thanks for the Whitman... > >there's this fantasy novel about a Pictish warrior who ends up fighting >against the Israelites & with her goddess actually talks back to Jehovah. >But the interesting, or neatly done bit, is when, with her ability to see >the soul-life of a person, she sees the future of jerusalem -- nothing but >bloody battles till the end of time...death death death... > >Doug > >Douglas Barbour >Department of English >University of Alberta >Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 >(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > >I am afraid. I said that. I said that > > for you. > > Phyllis Webb >