alt.education

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:51:49 +0000 (UTC), cary@ (Cary
Kittrell) wrote:

>> >>They were charged with heresy, and given all opportunity to confess their evil
>> >>ways. Most did. The rest went to the rack as capital punishment for heresy.
>> >A Christian does not send people to the rack as capital punishment for
>> >heresy.
>>
>> They did in Europe during the middle ages.
>>
>> >>That was the culture of the times.
>> >It must not have been a Christian culture then, only a Catholic one.
>>
>> There were no protest_ers yet.
>>
>> >>>> But this stuff is too morally elevated for your simple mind.
>> >>>Quoth the boy who thinks it's OK to "correct" heretics by torture,
>> >>>violence, and death.
>> >>See "culture" in the dictionary, asu.
>>
>> >See the red letters in your Bible. Please provide the red letters
>> >that say that a Christian shall practice torture or that a Christian
>> >shall practice capital punishment, especially the red letters that
>> >contradict the other red letters that say "Let he who is without sin
>> >cast the first stone".
>>
>> Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.......... Jesus was very big on
>> civic duty.

>No, He appeared very big on His followers not being seen
>as fomenting revolution against the empire, something that
>was rife among Jews in the region of His time.

Sorry, bubba asu. He was very big on civic duty.

>If Jesus were big on applying capital punishment when
>the law demanded capital punishment, He would have
>chucked the first rock, rather than actively preventing
>the prescribed execution from taking place.

I said civic duty. I didn't say killing others on a whim.

Keep trying, dud asu.

duke, American-American
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