(March 29, 2014 at 11:05 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The story is actually about a group of kids who insulted the Emperor's envoy. So the envoy sent his guards to kill them. It's what Saddam or the North Korean dictator would do without a second thought. The moral of the story is "don't insult the ruler or his ambassador." The Bible has a lot of passages repeating that same idea. Jesus told several such stories.
That's very interesting. Except it doesn't fucking say that.
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