[Sca-cooks] Catholic/Christian, was: The Fallwell/Robertson st

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Druighad at aol.com wrote in a message to All:

 Da> In a message dated 9/15/01 4:31:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
 Da> tsersen at nni.com writes:

 Da> << You shall not suffer a sorceress to live." >>

 Da> do you know, I have read this and researched it in various places
 Da> and the original text said "Thou shalt not suffer an ASSASSIN to
 Da> live?" funny how when men in religious places high, and mighty
 Da> change their texts to reflect their own views....
 Da> And No I don't remember where I first came across that historical
 Da> bit and it's been so long that I couldn't even begin to backtrack.

It was a mistranslation from a translation from the original ancient greek
IIRC.

Haraldr Bassi, Frosted Hills, East
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Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
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