crm@duke.UUCP (10/11/83)
Re: Pamela Troy's and Paul Samuelson's (did I spell that right?) con't'ing debate: I think that the arguments that God's chilluns are not as beastly as others are very clearly denied by 2 Kings something-or-other, in which several *dozen* children are TORN TO PIECES BY BEARS because they called God's prophet **BALDHEAD** !! I cannot emphasise that enough on an ASCII terminal. If a modern Loving Father killed several of his children because they called his favorite child names, we would call him a murderer and a sadist and would try to lock him away -- not respect him as a moral force. I defy you all to come up with an argument that suggests this was a 'moral act' that any reasonable person will accept. Gee, I didn't know I was going to flame on this one... Charlie Martin