XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: mightymartianca@hotmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:54:22 -0400,   
   Andrew F. Donnell  wrote:   
   > Joseph wrote:   
   >> "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...   
   >   
   > Yes, sadly, those are very un-Christian things to do....   
      
   Un-Christian by the standards of most modern Christians, but by the standards   
   of Medieval Christendom, they were perfectly legitimate actions.  And it's   
   not as if the Bible didn't provide examples of God-sanctioned acts of this   
   kind.   
      
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   Aaron Clausen   
   mightymartianca@hotmail.com   
      
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