[lbo-talk] Pluck-Out-Thy-Eye Dept

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Wed May 11 11:07:26 PDT 2005


You are right, Carl. And it is difficult to see how this fits the idea of religion as the heart of a heartless condition, though it is a sort of archaic feminism.

Not using that Biblical rationale, nonetheless, I "might could see" some reversible procedure (augmented vascetemy ?) as a punishment for multiple rape convictions.

Charles

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.Carl Remick

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[Or, since this is the age of outsourcing, have someone pluck it out for you.]

Religious news from all over

...Kenya's parliament passed a measure calling for castration of rapists. The country's health minister cited the Bible as saying that "if any part of

the body causes you to sin, it should be removed." ...

Carl

<http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0519,mondo1,63824,6.html>

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast

into hell."

-- Book of Matthew 29-30



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