>I WAS speaking hypothetically here, but:
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>Have you the Bible online, such that you can look up whether it's OK to beat your wife or not, or have you read every line and know there isn't such a passage, or are you selecting just the "nice bits" to trash my above argument?
Just in case you - or anyone else for that matter - are interested, you can download the "Ocean" software (free), and have a handy reference to the Sacred Scriptures of something like 10 different religions - including Christianity.
http://bahai-education.org/ocean/
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)