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From: marty1@houem.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Bible references
Message-ID: <661@houem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 06:53:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 06:53:19 1986
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Article <1775@vax3.fluke.UUCP> from jimt@fluke.UUCP (James Turner), quoted in full:

>God says not to murder people.  Exodus 20:13, Romans 13:9, Exodus 23:7
>
>Abortion is murder.  Jeremiah 1:4-5, Luke 1:15, Luke 1:41

Please don't quote the Bible as though it were the last word.  If
you're just correcting someone who read something different in the
Bible, please make that clear by appropriate references.

What turned me off from the Bible as a moral guide is the way the
Israelites, with the aid of the Hand of God, blasted their way like a
Blitzkrieg through the land of Canaan, slaughtering the inhabitants
along the way.  I suppose the ethics of the Old Testament, and the New
Testament, were advanced for their time, but today we would not condone
a Jewish Blitzkrieg.

So you may quote the Bible to those who are convinced by it.  But when
others in this newsgroup are complaining that today's laws can't
deal with future technical advances, I would not base my morals on
2000-year-old quotations taken out of context.

Sorry, I don't mean to stifle discussion based on the Bible.  Just put
it in perspective.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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