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   Joseph to All   
   Re: Can you love your enemy and still ki   
   10 Oct 05 07:59:24   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: joseph@nospam.com   
      
   "Graham Lockwood"  wrote in message   
   news:0001HW.BF6F8E10004931D4F0407600@news.dallas.sbcglobal.net...   
   > I suspect if everyone practiced "mere Christianity", there wouldn't be any   
   > "need" to torture anyone to find the location of a nuclear bomb/kidnapped   
   > child/whatever because nuclear terrorism and kidnapping are both very   
   > un-Christian things to do...   
      
   Like the Crusades, or the Inquisition...   
      
   - Joseph   
      
   > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:40:51 -0500, Steve Hayes wrote   
   > {snip}   
   >> The question is, in an imaginary world, where everyone *practises* "mere   
   >> Christianity", could one expect to find people torturing one another or   
   >> killing one another.   
   > {snip}   
   >   
   > I suspect if everyone practiced "mere Christianity", there wouldn't be any   
   > "need" to torture anyone to find the location of a nuclear bomb/kidnapped   
   > child/whatever because nuclear terrorism and kidnapping are both very   
   > un-Christian things to do...   
   >   
   >   
   > ---   
   > Graham   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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