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Yet, for all the obvious insanity in John’s Revelation, its twin promises of a happier life “over Jordan” and eternal torment for all the “other” people have given a measure of peace and assurance to many believers; they made it possible for the saints to endure the pain and suffering of this life.

Centuries from now, if some brave, forward-thinking church council moves to strip the book from the canon (and it almost didn’t make in to begin with), there will be riots, schisms, and even louder predictions of imminent apocalypse. Sadly, there will always be a market for such inhuman and ungodly mythology. It’s healthier for youngsters to believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny than be exposed to this stuff.

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Oh contraire,the Bible has many references to judicial process:

“Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.”
–Daniel 6:8 ( an obvious reference to declaratory relief)

For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
–I Timothy 5:18 (a clear, though apparently secondary, concern for payment of wages)

Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid.
–John 8:14 (Rules of Evidence)

And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.
–Exodus 21:18 (economic damages)

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].
–Exodus 21:22 (unspecified personal injury damages)

If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
–Exodus 21:32 (specified damages for negligent control of animals)

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.
And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the
dead [ox] also they shall divide.
–Exodus 21:33-35 (damages and partition for latent defects and conversion of personal property)

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
–Deuteronomy 22:13-19 (damages for marital cruelty)

If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
–Leviticus 22:28-29 (specified damages for rape)

We can whoop these Texans in ecclesiastical court and in “real” court. Yippee!

He may only Secede when we get back the entire Texas Republic as was in 1836.

And takes his award with him–the one he received for being the governor of the state “Most Likely to Secede.”

I believe Gov. Rick Perry told his constituents the following in his speech about seceding from the US: “Come with me. Armageddon outta here!”

“Oh yea, I work for Satan, and I have no problem with that. I just don’t want to get tagged. What if Hell goes into bankruptcy and I have to apply for Team Heaven?”

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23878/?a=f

The shooter in the Hood is now going to be made into a political rogue to please those in Pentagonia, Bullshitistan … a little surburb in the shiny republic.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-vs-glorious-death-vs-life.html