Re:Utility monster
by MereInterest on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:33AM
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> Thou Shalt Not Kill
Standard disclaimer that English words have shifted meaning, and that today it would be more accurately translated as "thou shall not murder".
More seriously, the OT Ten Commandments come with a whole bunch of asterisks — Thou Shalt Not Kill (except for war and executing criminals) — and even in the NT, when Christianity first popped into existence a number of the new converts immediately committed suicide right after baptism so that they would get into heaven with all their sins absolved and no chance of, e.g., dying immediately after an unwanted adultery boner [Matt 5:28].