Ed Weick wrote:
>
> > Ed Weick wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > It wasn't us. It was the fact that Abraham had two sons, one rightful
> and
> > > one wrongful.
> >
> > You have outstripped my bible knowledge here. What
> > evil did Abraham's other son -- presumably the
> > rightful one is Isaac? -- do to anyone?
>
> In the book of Genesis, Abraham's wife, Sarah, presumed she was baren and
> could not give him a son, so she told him to have sex with Hagar, her
> Egyptian maid servant. He did so, and fathered Ishmael. However, some time
> after that, Sarah gave birth to Isaac and had Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael
> packing.
Just as I thought. Hagar should have sued the b-stard [Abraham, not
her child!] for child support and probably breach of contract.
Sarah, of course, comes across a real -itch, too. It sounds
like Hagar honored *her* part of the surrogate mother contract....
The question remains: did Ismael (or Hagar) do any harm to anyone? Did
he
abandon any of his children? Did Y-w-h have to stop him from
killing any of his sons? Etc.
>
> Abraham is regarded as the foundation of all three great monotheistic
> religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. However, Christians and Jews
> see their descent to Abraham as proceeding through Isaac, whereas Moslems
> see the descent through Ishmael.
So they started out with at least 3 strikes against them?
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I continue to be amazed how much truth there is about
the injustice of society in the officially approved myths.
There is little reason to read Marx or other subversives
if you just read the stories of our role models
instead of seeing how beautiful the emperor's
new (as well as his old...) clothes are.
\brad mccormick
>
> Ed Weick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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