>>>>But Leviticus probably has some pretty fierce stuff in case we need it ...
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>>>No doubt. I've posted it here recently in fact.... :o) Thank goodness our constitution and laws are not based on nor derived from the Bible.
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>>I don't know - I had a lot of friends back in San Francisco who used to say, "Hey, the Bible *says* I should be stoned" <g>
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>If seen in that vein, isn't it preferable to get stoned for Qu'ran reasons ?
Well, since they have a prohibition against alcohol, I guess there isn't much choice <g> I was stoned in Afghanistan on a couple of occasions but I didn't go whining to Human Rights Watch.
I do remember drinking some god-awful date wine with some Kurds in what might have been Turkey or might have been Syria ( to the Kurds it was neither ) and their explaining to me it was technically *grapes* that were
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
