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   From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net   
      
   "Steve Hayes"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:o8v966dvif6jb4s8pc6u40jk0rns9cigfr@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:44:55 +0200, Dirk Thierbach   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >>> The historian Ronald Hutton, in his book "Pagan religions of the ancient   
   >>> British Isles", seems to be making a similar point to Lewis when he   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "The pagan Romans, like most ancient peoples and modern tribal   
   >>> societies, prescribed the death penalty for those who killed or who   
   >>> harmed property by witchcraft: in a system which believes in magic   
   >>> and has capital punishment for normal murder and arson, there is no   
   >>> other logical situation."   
   >>   
   >>And not so long ago Hitler prescribed death penalty for Jews because he   
   >>believed them being a "inferior race" would justify this. Guilt by   
   >>accusation.   
   >   
   > Unrelated, as I'm sure you realise, since you yourself pointed it out. The   
   > punishment if for the killing, not possessing the means.   
   >   
   > The anecdote is told of a man who was charged with brewing and selling   
   > illicit   
   > liquor. He argued in court that the police had not caught him in the act   
   > of   
   > selling it. The judge said, "But you had the apparatus".   
   >   
   > He was found guilty, and the judge asked, before he was sentenced, if   
   > there   
   > were any other offences he wanted to take into consideration.   
   >   
   > "Yes, Your Honour, rape."   
   >   
   > "Rape? When did you commit this crime?"   
   >   
   > "I haven't yet, but I've got the apparatus."   
      
   LOL!   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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