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<DIV><FONT size=4>Here's another to add to the list below:</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">From Credenda/Agenda by
Gregory Dickison [Comments added]:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><A
href="http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"The<B> civil magistrate</B> is the minister of God to
execute wrath on the wrongdoer (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><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 <B>premeditated killing (murder), kidnapping,
sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's
parents</B>..."<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"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 <B>mistaken belief</B> 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. <B>This sin is called
pity.</B>"<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><I>"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..."</I> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">[Heresy: Beware, ye not of the cult (including
unconverted Jews)!]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><I>"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..." </I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">God commands the judge to evaluate the <I>crime</I>
rather than the criminal. <B>If the crime is one for which God requires death,
</B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">then death
<I><U>must </U></I>be the punishment.</SPAN></B> Your eye <I>shall not pity</I>.
<B>Neither is the repentance of the accused relevant to the imposition of the
sentence.</B> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"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... This means
that we must return to an obedience which confines pity within the bounds which
God has established for us."<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Let's
see:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN> </P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=4>From: "Taro Tanaka" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:taro_tanaka@hotmail.com"><FONT
size=4>taro_tanaka@hotmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>To: <</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
size=4>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:26 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] True Muslims and True
Americans</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT size=4>> nickgier wrote:<BR>>
<BR>> [[ Respecting all religious beliefs? It is a no brainer!!!
]]<BR>> <BR>> Truer words were never spoken. Only a person with no brains
could "respect <BR>> all religious beliefs" -- either brainless or a
HYPOCRITICAL ("There are <BR>> some chilling parallels between Christian and
Islamic fundamentalists") <BR>> LIAR.<BR>> <BR>> I'm all for respecting
all human beings as the image-bearers of the living <BR>> God. But don't
insult anyone's intelligence by spewing nonsense about <BR>> respecting all
religious beliefs. It isn't even possible to respect all <BR>> religious
beliefs and as a simple matter of fact nobody does.<BR>> <BR>> Here are
just a few of a vast number of religious beliefs that are not <BR>> worthy of
respect, and I'm sure anyone can think of more with no difficulty:<BR>>
<BR>> * The religious beliefs of Jim Jones in the Guyana jungle<BR>> * The
religious beliefs behind the custom of burning alive newly widowed <BR>>
women in India<BR>> * The religious beliefs behind the practice of human
sacrifice in ancient <BR>> Mesoamerican cultures<BR>> <BR>> Instead of
lying about respecting all religious beliefs, how about <BR>> respecting
honesty and truthfulness for a change?<BR>> <BR>> -- Princess
Sushitushi<BR>> <BR>>
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