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Re: Promise Keepers

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 05:58
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judd@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Judd) writes:
[cheap shot on anybody-in-Boulder-is-flaming-hellbound-liberal]
>>	An abomination!!  Who said that?  Who put the ink to paper? 
>
>Let us consider this for one minute.  My version, the King James Version, says:

Yes, by all means let us consider that 300-year-old mistranslation, bent by
the political climate of the times, and further perverted by the changed
meanings of words over 15 generations.  Mediocre scholarship, compounded by
biases of an ancient patriarchal monarchy, then rotted into anachronism over
several hundred years...yep, that sure must be God's one chosen annointed
holy word, fer shure dude!

>Paul writes as well, soon thereafter:
>"It is good for a man not to touch a woman...

Let's revel in taking things out of context--as I've just done, but barely
more than the quoted article, for effect.  Hey, cool, but I'm glad men
touch women (and vice-versa and lots more) or we be gone from here.

>I am speechless.

We wish several more folks were.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
				Cats!
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From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: boulder.general,co.general
Subject: Re: Promise Keepers
Message-ID: <1992Aug22.055826@eklektix.com>
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:58:26 GMT
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