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To: Pining_4_TX
Well, some books of the Bible have a lot of violence...but there is a plot.

When Ulfilas translated the Bible into Gothic in the 4th century, he left out a few of the books that have a lot of warfare in them, figuring that the Goths didn't need the encouragement. ("Amalekites?" "Kill 'em all!")

35 posted on 07/15/2012 8:32:37 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Yes, but it is not gratuitous, explicitly portrayed violence in every grisly detail. Gibson’s movie about Christ went way beyond what the Bible did in depicting Christ’s suffering and death. We don’t have to see every gruesome moment to know how horrible something like that is.


40 posted on 07/15/2012 8:53:53 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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