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rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> As a good Christian I believe that Chris tried more than anyone else
> on this list to help Nikos before talking recourse to another gem of
> biblical wisdom:

> He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
> chasteneth him betimes.

Good Christian morality entails biblical encouragement to beat one's
child with a rod, I see.

Please, may I be spared encounters with good Christians.

Let's end right now the insidious doctrine that beating a person –
metaphorically or otherwise – is ever acceptable in this forum. If that
contradicts anyone's good Christian morality, then good Christian
morality is dead wrong and needs to be rejected.

-- 
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Ben Finney