Bible Argument Spurs Boiling-Oil Charge

[Champ]

EUGENE, Ore. - A woman is accused of pouring boiling oil on her boyfriend's face in an argument over a Bible verse.

Angela S. Morris, 19, was charged with domestic violence assault and jailed on $250,000 bail. Her 31-year-old boyfriend, whose name was not released, was hospitalized with severe burns on his face, neck and chest.

The two were reading the Bible at the boyfriend's apartment May 13 when Morris went to the kitchen to prepare french fries, police said.

Morris told police that they continued to argue and that her boyfriend grabbed her from behind. Police said he then went to his bedroom to lie down. Morris followed and threw the oil on him, police said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=1&u=/ap/20040520/ap_on_fe_st/boiling_oil_bible

[Champ]

1. kick

:kick:

[GOPisEvil]

2. Ouch!!!!!

Arguing over the bible leads to violence? Where have we seen THAT before? :shrug:

[Catholic Sensation]

3. which verse was it?

I broke an engagement over the interpretation of James 2:4. The girl thought it meant only class discrimination, while I thought it meant discrimination as a whole.

and judging from a discussion about Alex Kerry last night, I'll need to make this bold for some of the insanely pc people here:

</SARCASM>

[OneBlueSky]

4. now I'm pretty sure that's not what Jesus would do . . . n/t

.

[MountainLaurel]

5. I feel gipped

The article doesn't tell you WHICH verse it was. I bet it had to do with female subservience and who should be cooking dinner. :evilgrin:

[mosin]

8. That was my first thought!

My wife and I both cook, but we still fight over what to eat for dinner. It's probably a good thing that we don't read the Bible at such volatile moments!

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Maybe it was whether Jesus wants us to kill homos with rocks,

or if only the elders are supposed to kill homos with rocks; or maybe whether Jesus wanted women around to witness the rigtheous killing of homos (or might even have been abour proper way to kill abortionists, or people who marry interracially), or if something other than rocks should be used, like pickup trucks or nooses.

It can be so difficult to determine what Jesus wants of us, I can see where it would lead to violence, especially when it comes to determining who to hate, how to properly hate them, and appropriately Christian execution-methodology of those whom Jesus hates.

[Don_G]

6. "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth?"

:shrug:

[jukes]

7. kickin'

:kick:

[Deja Q]

10. (shakes head in defeat)

No comment. Any comment I'd make would be like sticking my fist into a hornet's nest...