On 26 Nov 2003 17:44:01 GMT, bIX (Bill) wrote:


In article ,
writes:
snips

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.
snips

One needs to understand the history of the period in order to
understand the writings that come from that period. This is true
for all ancient text, not just the Bible.

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 !

Latin is a re-write just as the German, English, or any other...
Actually, perhaps we should just keep the ancient Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek texts, and burn the rest...? 8^)

Burn them ! Burn them ! Burn the witches and
unbelievers !!! :-)

Yeh, that's the ticket !
Oh wait, what shall we call these leaders ?
I have it ! We can call them Mullahs and Ayatollas !!

The difference between Judeo-Cristianity and Islam, is
really a simple one, but quite profound. Christians

It's non-existent. They are all deluded religionists who
can't accept death, or the unknown, and need to pretend that they have
the answers to either,

are saved by faith, and their discipline comes from

..... what some guy in a long black dress who's never been
laid says on Sunday morning.

within themselves, while Moslems are saved by their
works, and their discipline comes from without/others.

That's an amusing little piece of bigotted racist modernism,
quite popular among Xtians in the last 50 years or so. You used to
merely call them 'infidels' and 'hordes' while you were busy killing
them for their differing beliefs.

"Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate for the government of any other." -John Adams

So ? His brother has a really ****ty tasting beer named after
him, too. What's the point ?

"Without Personal virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear and
coercion, a truth tyrants understand only too well." -C.W.Colson

So ? Maybe free people can understand it, too ?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Go kill a perfectly innocent turkey, I can't stop you .



Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me

New HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's !! http://pmilligan.net/palm/
Free demo now available online !!!!
--
Free superheat charts for 38 Ref's online at http://pmilligan.net/pmtherm/
My personal site is at http://www.pmilligan.net