adjective "Christian"

[Baker, John]

        McConnell probably takes the position that if it's in the Bible, it's Christian.  I don't know how guys like that justify not keeping kosher.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: adjective "Christian"


>         The reference is to Proverbs 13:24, which in the King James
>Version reads "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that
>loveth him chasteneth him betimes."

Well, if the paddle had been termed a *Judeo-*Christian symbol...

L