Text 21842, 37 rader
Skriven 2008-10-14 11:25:20 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 21800 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Legal Strictions
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Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday October 13 2008 at 14:53:

RB>> So some life is holy and some is not?

RW> Back to God again, where he said you shouldn't kill aka murder. God's
RW> punishment for that was a life for a life.

"God"? Or people who take it upon themselves to proclaim what they consider his
word? And use that as a power basis for themselves? That particular quote,
incidently, was taken from the Hammurabi Code, later ported into the Bible. It
has nothing to do with any "god".

Some of the most vicious atrocities perpetrated in this world over time have
been in the name of some god or another. That doesn't make them right, at least
not in my eyes. But some people think any atrocity is just fine as long as a
Bible or Koran or whatever can be interpreted to justify it. Sickening!

RB>> That's the kind of thinking I object to, particularly from people who
RB>> call themselves "believers".

RW> They're just following orders from above.

That's what the accused Nazis at the Nuremberg trials said too, and they were
hung despite that.

Unfortunately, a certain Corporal Calley who used the same defence for
atrocities committed in Vietnam, was not similarly punished. But of course, he
was not on the losing side.

If there is a God, he gave people a brain and the power to use it. Which they
should do more often - and use him much less as a cheap excuse for their own
misdeeds.

Cheers, Bob

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