Where do you get the concept of "anomaly" from. I thought you were a
nominalist. There is no such thing as an ideal "real" "typical" Christian.
The Reconstructionists are no less Christian than anyone else.
Dear Gilberto,
Would you say the same thing about Osama ben Laden?
I'm not trying to define what a Christian is, but there are some views that
are more normative than others. The Reconstructionalists are a group without
much of a history in Christianity.
"Well it certainly wasn't a nerfing. Actually, pressing by rocks is included
in some definitions of stoning."
I don't remember it ever being suggested that Bilal was stoned. This was
torture, not an execution like stoning. They really didn't intend to kill
this guy, at least not that way. They were trying to force a confession out
of him so then they could hang him.
"The point is that in the context of the Salem witch trials, it was an
execution."
Okay, if you want to say that Christians stoned dogs, you can. But so far
all you've come up with is mobs throwing rocks, dogs being stoned, and the
use of heavy stones for judicial torture. That is pretty slim for a religion
with a 2000 year old history.
"I was recently censored again on soc.religion.bahai so I was just being
cautious."
Or maybe touchy. ;-}
"Even in the Bible, Joseph, and I think Jeremiah spent time imprisoned."
Prisons in antiquity were intended as holding cells for those awaiting
sentence. But people were not typically sentenced to prison itself.
" Do you think that God in the previous scriptures really ordained the women
be considered men's property?"
Ordained? No. Accepted the fact? Yes. Just as the Qur'an (and the Bible)
accepted the fact of slavery.
warmest, Susan
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