Posted on 06/27/2012 7:22:25 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Edited on 06/27/2012 7:55:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
You saw that on PBS, didn’t you? I cringed when I heard that, because Lee-Enfield rifles hadn’t been invented at the time of the Sepoy Mutiny.
Be that as it may, they are proscribing a sign of religious covenant that dates back to Abraham.
“Barbaric”?
So, God was barbaric for insisting on circumcision?
Some how Germany worrying about humane treatment seems like an oxymoron. Didn’t they just exterminate 10 million people a generation ago? Oh, that’s right it’s something the Jews believe in. Well, there you go.
So is killing someone because they use two different kinds of cloth to make their clothes. Do you support that?
A I told another poster, no I did not see it on PBS, as I don't really watch TV. I'm sorry you cringed when you saw it. While the Lee-Enfield rile with brass cartridge ammo had not been invented yet.....the Pattern 1853 Enfield were first used by the Brits in well, 1853.
The Indian mutiny was in 1957.......four years after the introduction of the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle.
Nowhere in Leviticus 19 does it say those who mix two types of cloth are to be killed. Did you even double check that before posting or just repeat what somebody told you? Remember, trust but verify.
For or against this law?
You’re missing the point in an EPIC way.
The “historian” on PBS actually said Lee-Enfield, not Enfield, and as a nit-picking point, I doubt Enfield rifles were being issued to Indian troops 3 years after their introduction. Native troops usually were issued previous-generation arms that became available when front-line troops were issued new weapons. I’ll try to look up the dates when Enfield-pattern rifles were issued to Indian troops.
Well, wikipedia says the 1853 Enfield was considered a cause of the mutiny, so I guess that’s that. I stand corrected.
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