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   From: darstec@neo.rr.com   
      
   Seon Ferguson wrote:   
      
   >   
   >   
   > "HD"  wrote in message   
   > news:s6Sgl.15997$cu.3409@news-server.bigpond.net.au...   
   >>   
   >> "Peter Webb"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4983e8a8$0$20975$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...   
   >>> Atheists have done lots of bad things, but not because they are   
   >>> atheists, but because they are bad people.   
   >>>   
   >>> Whereas Muslim terrorists do bad things because they are Muslims.   
   >>>   
   >>> Atheism is not comparable to having religious beliefs; religious nutters   
   >>> quite often kill people for religious reasons; atheists do not. Atheism   
   >>> is not a religion, and it does not dictate how people should live and   
   >>> who they should hate.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Let me see if I got that right.   
   >> Atheists do bad thinngs because they are bad people.   
   >> Christians do bad things, not because they are bad people, but because   
   >> they are religious.   
   >> Is that an Irish joke?   
   >>   
   > How many people were burnt at the stake or tortured because of a   
   > mistranslated Bible verse that said thou shalt not suffer a witch to live?   
      
   Are you sure you mean "mistranslated"?  The literal translation of "mkshphe   
   la thchie"  is "one-being-cnchantress not your shall-let-live".  It is   
   archaic, primitive and tribal and an admonition of ignorant goat herders,   
   but not really a mistranslation.  The word is found only twice in the Old   
   Testament.  Technically the word means one who whispers a spell.   
      
   If you meant "misguided"  then you are right.   
      
   --   
   Later,   
   Darrell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)