On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:09:42 GMT, wrote:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:40:42 GMT, wrote:

As a Christian Agnostic I find the bible has many useful passages but
has to be read too carefully for the average person to glean much from

In other words, you have to fantasize in your own imagination
'what you think it said', or 'what you wish it said'.

Kind of like a manual for a Japanese VCR.

it. While it does have some useful moral precepts, it is hardly a
standard of much, that goes for most holy books of most other religions
too. While useful they can easily be misinterpreted.


You make a good case for the pre-reformation church's position on the
reading of it by the laity (as well as most clergy) - today's problems
result from too many of the uninformed clergy and lay sheep that
follow them having access to it !

That's right ! What we need is to burn all copies except
those in Latin, and rely on a religious hierarchy to tell us what God
told us to do ! Then if we don't do it, they can burn us alive for
our own good, and the good of our eternal souls, because they love
us !

Yeh, that's the ticket !

Oh wait, what shall we call these leaders ?

I have it ! We can call them Mullahs and Ayatollas !!



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