alt.education

On Oct 4, 7:34 pm, c...@ (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> duke
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> > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:20:29 +0000 (UTC), c...@ (Cary
> > Kittrell) wrote:
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> > >> >Killing people because of their religious beliefs
> > >> >is a "correction"?
> > >> Hey, this was medieval Europe 1000 years ago.
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> > >And this makes it not so bad?
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> > Different culture. You know those Europeans.
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> Why lookie there: Duke has become a moral relativist;
> it wasn't a sin if they didn't think it was a sin.
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> > >I seem to recall in that book you really should
> > >read sometime that murder was forbidden murder some 2500
> > >years ago.
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> > Murder is forbidden. Capital punishment is not murder.
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> We're not talking about "capital punishment", we're talking
> about slaughtering thousands because they refuse to
> adopt your take on religion. That's murder.
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Just a note -- if heresy is a capital offense, then executing heretics
technically isn't murder. It is indeed merely capital punishment,
even if we don't like it.

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> > >> They weren't killing people
> > >> because of their religious beliefs - they were correcting **unrepentant**
> > >> heretical Christianity.
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> > >Excuse me? Killing someone for making up their own minds
> > >about religion is "correcting" something?
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> > Different Culture.
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> So when the Red Guards murdered millions of Chinese
> during the Great Leap Forward, it wasn't a sin, becuse
> they're a "different culture"?
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> > >"unmrpentant heresy" is a euphemism (look it up), for
> > >not believing the way we order you to".
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> > I know what it means - Christians professing/practicing heretical and erroneous
> > Christian actions.
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> So they needed killing?
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> And if you think so, then do you think we should start killing Mormons?
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> > >And "correcting" was, in this case, a euphemism
> > >for "slaughtering".
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> > Nope.
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> They butchered them, by the thousands -- along with
> non-Cathar bystanders. That IS in fact "slaughering".
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> -- cary