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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Phil, Donovan,<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I have been reviewing and thinking
about your arguments that my words and actions with regard to <?xml:namespace
prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> amount to unwarranted,
unjustifiable religious discrimination.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Perhaps you are right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am almost
convinced.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">However, there is a possibility
that one and/or the other of you do not really believe what you have been
instructing/preaching to us about the subject of religious
tolerance/discrimination.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(We have
had pretenders before preach on Vision 2020 things which they did not really
believe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to make sure you
are not just having fun at my/Vision 2020 readers' expense before converting to
your view.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I merely ask for one simple
demonstration from you to show your good faith to all of Vision 202 and the
entire community, to show your true beliefs, and to show your unflagging/<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">no-exceptions-to-the-rule</SPAN></B> commitment against
religious intolerance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This easy task involves doing
something which both of you have assured us that you have had extensive
experience in and a fervent ontological commitment to, namely fighting religious
discrimination/intolerance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
execution of this easy task may well complete the conversion of my, and I am
sure many other similarly minded persons, to your points of view on this
matter.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The task is organizing a fight and
then actually fighting discrimination against a Christian church in this area
which has been treated very shabbily by a large number of people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This church has been run out of several
north <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>
locations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know personally that
the members of this general congregation who are residents of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> are feeling tremendous hostility
from others and feel very, very threatened.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The name of the church is
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Note the similarity in name to
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.]<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your service in pursuing relief for
these beleaguered congregants will really help convert myself and others to your
view that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> should not be the
object of discrimination/intolerance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Why?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">Because on certain
crucial matters in the church agenda, both churches are very similar to each
other:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #ff6600; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The religious,
social, and political doctrines/agendas of both churches are <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">firmly based on the teachings and actual
words of the Bible</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both
churches <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">quote scripture copiously</B>
to support their programs/agendas.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Both churches ignore the almost
unanimous agreement of trained historians; both rely upon small snippets of
mostly anomalous, stretched, or imagined truths especially isolated scriptural
wedges; both are led by charismatic, manipulative, egocentric, narcissistic men;
both define racism/anti-Semitism differently and much narrowly than what is
generally meant by the terms; both are pro-slavery, theocratic, and white male
supremacists; both repudiate the use of logic when it threatens their belief
structure; and the members of both churches claim to be intellectually,
spiritually, and morally superior to the rest of us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Both churches have doctrines whose
practical effects are the same when addressing homosexuals and
Jews:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Both consider unconverted Jews to
be heretics.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In both churches,
heretics are to be executed as clearly commanded by God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: red">In theory and
recommended practice, both churches then are anti-Semitic among other
things</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff6600">.</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> is quite overt on this
matter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, this doctrine is cleverly and
stealthfully hidden:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>one must make
the correct inferences from theological dicta</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">*</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(See the actual dicta below [comments
added].)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Both churches consider homosexuals
to be abominations mandated for execution (or least exile) as clearly commanded
by God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both believe murderers,
kidnappers, and those practicing bestiality are to be executed as clearly
commanded by God.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">However, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ
Christian</st1:PlaceName> is less Draconian in its agenda than <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> in two ways:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">[1]<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ
Christian</st1:PlaceName> does not consider the following groups mandated for
execution while <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> does:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Children
who curse their parents,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Adulterers,
and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>Sorcerers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">[2]<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> demands that the above discussed
executions be by stoning as clearly commanded by God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ
Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> is much more flexible about which methods
of execution can be used.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Hence Phil and Donovan, in terms
of religious agendas and your clearly and forcefully expressed views on
tolerance:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Since <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ
Christian</st1:PlaceName> is less Draconian in the long run than <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType>, and since <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType>
is not to be discriminated against, then neither should be the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I do not like to admit that I am
wrong.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I will freely and
publicly do that once I see the tremendous effort and the success of that effort
both you Phil and you Donovan will put forth in clear accordance with your
grandly avowed views on religious tolerance to stop discrimination against the
Church of Christ Christian.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I will really convert to your
views once I see <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType>, who is now crying "Discrimination!"
themselves, vigorously join the cry and action for nondiscrimination against and
tolerance for the beliefs and desired practices <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Lets us know Phil and Donovan,
when your visible actions are to start and what shape they will take.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Others will certainly want to join under
your courageous leadership.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Oh, did I mention?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ
Christian</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> is also known as The Aryan
Nations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">*</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>During the next few
weeks it is likely that an event will occur that will make the covert
anti-Semitism of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> a little more
visible.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">PS to Phil and Donovan:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>After you have shown and vigorously promoted
tolerance for the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ Christian</st1:PlaceName> and its
beliefs/agenda, perhaps you can do the same for the Fundamentalist Mormons
(suggestion:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Google "<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bountiful</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">British
Columbia</st1:State></st1:place>").<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">From <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Credenda/Agenda</I> by Gregory Dickison
[Comments added]:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><A
href="http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>"The<STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> civil magistrate</SPAN></STRONG>
is the minister of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer (<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rom.</st1:place></st1:country-region> 13:4). God
has not left his civil minister without guidance on how to exercise his office.
The Scriptures set forth clear standards of judgment for many offenses. Capital
crimes, for example, include <STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red">premeditated
killing (murder), kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and
cursing one's parents</SPAN></STRONG>..."</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"In contemporary American jurisprudence,
none of these offenses is punishable by death, with the occasional exception of
murder. The magistrates have dispensed with God's standards of justice. Some
Christians believe this is an improvement. They would be horrified to think that
the "harsh" penalties of the law should still be applied. Sometimes this is the
result of the <STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">mistaken belief</SPAN></STRONG>
that the Old Testament has no further application after the advent of Christ.
This is an exegetical problem. Too often, it is the result of a sinful view of
the criminal. <STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red">This sin is called
pity.</SPAN></STRONG>"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><EM>"If your brother, the son of
your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend
who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and serve
other gods,". . . you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your
eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill
him..."</EM><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">[Heresy: Beware, ye not of the
cult (including unconverted Jews)!]</SPAN></P>
<P><EM><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">"If two men fight together, and
the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one
attacking him, and puts out the hand and seizes him by the genitals, then you
shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her..."<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></EM></P>
<P><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>God commands the judge to evaluate
the <I>crime</I> rather than the criminal. <STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red">If
the crime is one for which God requires death,
</SPAN></STRONG></FONT><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: red">then
death </SPAN></STRONG><EM><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 36pt; COLOR: red">must
</SPAN></U></B></EM><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: red">be the
punishment.</SPAN></STRONG><FONT size=3> Your eye <I>shall not pity</I>.
<STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: red">Neither is the repentance of the accused
relevant to the imposition of the sentence.</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"Thus, the Bible teaches that pity is not
an option where God has decided the matter. The [civil] magistrate, God's
minister, is to faithfully execute justice according to God's standard, not
man's...<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This means that we must
return to an obedience which confines pity within the bounds which God has
established for us."</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Let's
see:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Murder (by even a child),
kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, cursing one's parents,
heresy, etc. are to be punished by death (by stoning) according to Gregor and by
the extension of the Cult Master's statements, all of the Christ Church
Cult.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>