Pulpit Language

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>>>>> "AIS07" == AIS07  <AIS07@aol.com> writes:

    AIS07> In a message dated 96-09-07 15:19:06 EDT, rj@eli.wariat.org
    AIS07> (Robert J. Brown) writes:

    AIS07> << "Bastard" is a Biblical word.  There is nothing wrong
    AIS07> with using it. >>

    AIS07> *SIGH.* I'm getting a bit exasperated here.  Once again,
    AIS07> "B_______" was an English translation of a Hebrew word that
    AIS07> had no profanity associated with it. The original Hebrew
    AIS07> NEVER used a profane word in the passage you cite.  Again,
    AIS07> by this logic, since the Bible refers to the bodily
    AIS07> function of p___ing against the wall, it's ok to use this
    AIS07> word behind the pulpit...and it's NOT.

    AIS07> --Rich (Longing for a day when Christians still had a sense
    AIS07> of reverence for the pulpit, the church, and the things of
    AIS07> God)

Then am I to suppose that the passages of scripture that use these
words are not OK to read over the pulpit?  If we can't read them over
the pulpit because they have naughty little words in them, then they
may as welll be removed from the Bible, but that clashes with other
verses...  Oh dear!  Have we proved the Bible false by finding a
contradiction in it?  Or have we proved your assumption false?

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