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"-Hector-" |
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10 Dec 2003 02:14:31 PM |
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A Setback for Moral Relativism |
From the apocraphyl Book of Jasher or Sefer Hayasher - The Book Of The
Righteous:
# And in the course of time Sarah sent Eliezer to Sodom, to see Lot
and inquire after his welfare.
# And Eliezer went to Sodom, and he met a man of Sodom fighting with a
stranger, and the man of Sodom stripped the poor man of all his
clothes and went away.
# And this poor man cried to Eliezer and supplicated his favor on
account of what the man of Sodom had done to him.
# And he said to him, Why dost thou act thus to the poor man who came
to thy land?
# And the man of Sodom answered Eliezer, saying, Is this man thy
brother, or have the people of Sodom made thee a judge this day, that
thou speakest about this man?
# And Eliezer strove with the man of Sodom on account of the poor man,
and when Eliezer approached to recover the poor man's clothes from the
man of Sodom, he hastened and with a stone smote Eliezer in the
forehead.
# And the blood flowed copiously from Eliezer's forehead, and when the
man saw the blood he caught hold of Eliezer, saying, Give me my hire
for having rid thee of this bad blood that was in thy forehead, for
such is the custom and the law in our land.
# And Eliezer said to him, Thou hast wounded me and requirest me to
pay thee thy hire; and Eliezer would not hearken to the words of the
man of Sodom.
# And the man laid hold of Eliezer and brought him to Shakra the judge
of Sodom for judgment.
# And the man spoke to the judge, saying, I beseech thee my lord, thus
has this man done, for I smote him with a stone that the blood flowed
from his forehead, and he is unwilling to give me my hire.
# And the judge said to Eliezer, This man speaketh truth to thee, give
him his hire, for this is the custom in our land; and Eliezer heard
the words of the judge, and he lifted up a stone and smote the judge,
and the stone struck on his forehead, and the blood flowed copiously
from the forehead of the judge, and Eliezer said, If this then is the
custom in your land give thou unto this man what I should have given
him, for this has been thy decision, thou didst decree it.
# And Eliezer left the man of Sodom with the judge, and he went away.
http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/jasher/19.htm
Temporarily readjusting my moral standards,
Hector
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: A Setback for Moral Relativism |
10 Dec 2003 02:18:41 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:14:31 -0800 in alt.atheism, -Hector- (-Hector-
<Melitus@Dithyrambic.com>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
From the apocraphyl Book of Jasher or Sefer Hayasher - The Book Of The
Righteous:
The Book of Sharon
Chapter 94
1. And lo again, it came to pass in the land of Is-rael that
the Araf-ites and the Hamas-ites and all the other -ites
waxed wroth, saying "Our land has been taken away from
us, and the children of Is-rael have pitched their tents
even on the ground that has been ours through all
generations".
2. Thou mayest have read this before, and thou knowest
what comest next.
3. Then rose up a young man who was a Hamas-ite and
girded himself with the weapons of death.
4. And he went up to Jerusalem, unto the house that is
called Pizza, where the children of Is-rael were wont
to gather.
5. And he slew them, even an hundredfold. And he was
himself slain.
6. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth
among the children of Is-rael at this terrible deed.
7. And they cried unto Sharon for vengeance.
8. And, lo, Sharon heard their cry and said unto them,
"This is how we are repaid for trying to make peace
with the Araf-ites".
9. "But now," saith Sharon to his people, "the time for
talking has passed".
10. And the children of Is-rael rejoiced with exceeding great joy. For
they knew that the smiting was about to begin, as surely as the locust
shall consume the harvest fields of He-bron.
11. And so the hosts of Sharon went forth into the lands of
the Araf-ites and laid waste ther dwelling places until
not one stone stood upon another.
12. And the streets of those places ran red with the blood
of the Araf-ites, even as the smiting continued until the
setting of the sun.
13. And Sharon looked upon the smiting and saw that it
was good.
14. "For," said he, "it teacheth them a lesson they will not
forget in a hurry."
15. But thou dost not need to be a rocket scientist to
guess what happened next.
16. The following day another young son of Hamas girded
himself with the weapons of death and went up unto
Hai-fa, the repeat the whole sad story.
17. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
18. And the children of Is-rael cried out unto Sharon and sayeth
"What shall we do now, for this cannot be allowed to go on."
19. And Sharon said unto them, "I have a solution. From now on,
it is no more they Guy that is called Mr Nice".
20. "Now I am really going to get smiting like I've never smited
before".
21. And the children of Is-rael rejoiced. For this time they thought,
smiting would really do the trick.
22. And thou dost not have to be a brain surgeon to know what
cometh next.
<quotation ends>
[snip]
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