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>> don't accept men who hurt their spouses.  In a very real sense God is the
>> spouse of every worthy soul:  to hurt him by sin is as unacceptable as
>> permitting a man to beat his wife.  I know that I have never struck my wife:

 That is a very good way of putting it.

 Rc>  More seriously, one of the texts in the Koran which angered
 Rc>  and disgusted me was how Mohammed allowed husbands
 Rc>  to BEAT their wives for "cause."

 Now if a wife was allowed to beat her husband for cause also,
 and the husband required to submit to it...

 OTOH, better to let each be responsible for his or her own
 failings to God, and we keep out of punishing sin.
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 Rc>  and have spread dirt and disease.  To say nothing of
 Rc>  attacking sleeping children in slum areas.  I won't shed
 Rc>  any tears if we ever succeed in exterminating wild rats.

 As much as I would agree emotionally, I do gotta say, I'd be
 careful about deciding any creature doesn't have a proper place
 in nature...even if that place is not in our inhabited areas.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Okay, I pulled the pin.  Now what?  Wait!  Where are you going?
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