Beat your wife? [off topic]

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Carl Geisk

[snip digression]


> I digress.  Here is the point:

 

> During the sermon, the "pastor" was mentioning how Jesus saved us

from the old law (debatable).  He said that the OT claims it is OK to
beat your wife with a stick AS LONG AS IT WAS NO LARGER IN DIAMETER
THAN YOUR THUMB!  OK, that is a new one on me.  I tried to find the
reference, but had no luck.  Does anyone have any idea where this
thumb thing came from?  Or is it just another typical example of
Christian lies and deception?
 

> Carl Geisik

 
BRYCE
     I'm pretty sure it isn't in the Old Testament.  Usually, it is
claimed that this rule came out of British common law, and that the
rule is the source of the phrase "rule of thumb."  But I've read some
things that indicated that no such rule existed there, either.  Best I
can tell, it seems to be a sort of urban myth or rumor.  If you're
really interested, I might be able to find my sources again.
==
Bryce Anderson
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Thus spake Nostradamus:  "Two nations shall go to war.  One shall lose."  What a remarkable prediction of the Vietnam War!


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