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Thread #29874   Message #381971
Posted By: InOBU
25-Jan-01 - 07:15 AM
Thread Name: Conservative Cavalry Round Five !!!!
Subject: RE: Conservative Cavalry Round Five !!!!
If I need to explain to you the difference between non-establishment of religion and what that means in creating a wall between church and state, well, there are some challenges I am just not up to this early in the day. Now, when it comes to fundamentalist interpritations of either the bible or the Constitution, I notice that the same folks are quick to interpret when the writing goes against their poticular notion. For example, most "right to lifers" interprit such sayings as "choose life" to say the Bible is anti abortion, and ignore the only direct reference to abortion, Numbers 5 - 11 (or there about, read a paragraph one way or the other) where in - if one suspects one's wife of infidelitiy, you take her to the priest who administers bitter water, which, if she was unfaithful, the baby withers in her womb. Now, I don't endorce coersive abortion, such as described here, just an example of selective fundimentalism (or legal formalism for its legalist equivelant). Well, enough from me for now... carry on all...
all the best,
Larry