On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:10:03 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio
] wrote:

Actually, It's "Thou shalt not MURDER" (Lost a little something in translation).
There is no general prohibition of "killing" in the Bible, which also spells out the
conditions in which killing a human is allowed.

No problem then, fire away...

Repeat of old Quaker joke: Old farmer hears a ruckus out in the barn
late one night. Climbs out of bed in his nightshirt, grabs the
blunderbuss over the mantle, lights a lantern and waddles out to the
barn.

He throws open the barn door to observe a thief in the middle of
attempting to steal his horse.

Leveling the blunderbuss at the would be thief, he portends: "Friend,
I would not hurt thee for all the world, but thee's standing where I'm
about to shoot."

Corky Scott