Re: Death penalty
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>The gospel *is* offensive, isn't it? > Not uniquely so...but I guess. Well, St. Paul calls it offensive anyway. "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense." (Romans 9:33) "We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness." (1 Cor 1:23) > Religious ideologies tend to be offensive to > those who do not believe them. Especially if that religious ideology has a critique of one's lifestyle. It's nothing new, Thom, and I don't see how to the two sides can be reconciled. Each side is asking the other to give up a belief. Not an easy thing. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot