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To: GenXFreedomFighter
If it is all to be taken literally, and contradicts itself to the literal-minded reader, then it certainly loses its credibility real fast, doesn't it?

You mean like the part about where Jesus makes a vague statement to Peter about him being "a rock", and a bunch of people said that that statement gives them the right to torture and murder people who refuse to bend their knee in submission to some guy in a pointy hat?

34 posted on 05/21/2002 12:18:51 PM PDT by berned
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To: berned
Don't make me mention the literal-minded Puritans who burned witches at the stake in Salem...oops, I just did.
37 posted on 05/21/2002 12:23:31 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: berned
a bunch of people said that that statement gives them the right to torture and murder people who refuse to bend their knee in submission to some guy in a pointy hat?

This is, of course, distinct from the situation in which a fat guy with syphilis said, "I want your body, baby", followed by a bunch of stuffy English aristocrats announcing that said fat guy was "Supreme Head of the Church in England" ... thereby giving them the right to torture and murder people who refused to bend the knee in submission to said fat guy and his pals. See, they were Protestants, and you can just denounce them as "not true Christians" and neatly evade taking any responsibility for them killing Catholics by the hundreds. OTOH, the people you're talking about were Catholics, and you fully intend to hold the Catholic Church corporately responsible for their behavior.

How convenient.

54 posted on 05/21/2002 1:11:46 PM PDT by Campion
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