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"New10." |
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10 Oct 2004 02:35:32 PM |
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A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES
By New10.
How is it possible that today in the most technologically advanced country
in the world,
most people make a distinction between bedtime stories read to children and
the fables read in
the Bible. "Perhaps" if the fables found in the books by the Grimm Brothers
were popular today,
it would be apparent as to the connection between these two books of
Fairytales (then again
perhaps not).
Whether one believes in the literalness of the Bible stories or not, all
concepts of a God
come from the Bible. How much confidence can one have in a person who finds
God in this
obsolescent artifact called the Bible? No matter how abstract or irradiate
religious concepts may
be, they all originate from the same primitive and ignorant source. You
cannot turn an ignorant
concept into an intelligent one no matter how hard one tries without a
sacrifice.
The case I want to make is those who are in anyway influenced by the Bible
are
encouraged to sacrifice one's own observation, experience and the reality
testing to others. To
have doubts of one's own thought process makes one easy victims to religious
authoritarian
control.
It's a sad commentary that current society is led to believe their life is
bereft of meaning
unless they look back to an archaic past found in the Bibles. Do people
really want to live by
the injunctions of biblical times? Do people rally want to go to an immoral
past for their morals?
Do people of this century really want to hold slaves? Do husbands and
fathers really want
exclusive rights as arbiters of morals to fit their personal agenda? Do
husbands and fathers
really desire to hold their wives and children as chattel? Do fathers and
husbands really want
the authority to kill members of his father with impunity as the Bible
stories indicate? Do
husbands and fathers really want to go back to the time of the Bible where
there is a list of
offenses found in the Bible that deserved capital punishment that rational
people today would
find ludicrous?
Is it not true that those who read the sagas of biblical times are in the
same group as
those who are addicted to soap operas and People Magazine? Would you not
advise these
people "to get a life" of their own?
Is it not true that many do not trust their own sense of morality and have
to be told by
others what is moral or not? Is this not true of Christian
Reconstructionists? "The substitute
for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and
the substitute for
individual balance is fusion with others into a compact group."
"To the frustrated a mass movement offers substitutes either for the whole
self or for the
elements which make life bearable and which they cannot evoke out of their
individual
resources."
-The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
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| User: "Pete Hwr" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 01:55:24 AM |
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It is obvious that you hate one or more of the following: Christ
Christians
Christianity
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have picked
an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in accordance with
their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely inoffensive and teaches high
moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can possibly compare. All other
religions are morally inferior.
You must be quite filed with hate if you hate Christ, Christians, or
Christianity.
"New10." <drnjoseph@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:8agad.6565$nl4.5280@twister.socal.rr.com...
A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES
By New10.
How is it possible that today in the most technologically advanced country
in the world,
most people make a distinction between bedtime stories read to children
and
the fables read in
the Bible. "Perhaps" if the fables found in the books by the Grimm
Brothers
were popular today,
it would be apparent as to the connection between these two books of
Fairytales (then again
perhaps not).
Whether one believes in the literalness of the Bible stories or not, all
concepts of a God
come from the Bible. How much confidence can one have in a person who
finds
God in this
obsolescent artifact called the Bible? No matter how abstract or irradiate
religious concepts may
be, they all originate from the same primitive and ignorant source. You
cannot turn an ignorant
concept into an intelligent one no matter how hard one tries without a
sacrifice.
The case I want to make is those who are in anyway influenced by the Bible
are
encouraged to sacrifice one's own observation, experience and the reality
testing to others. To
have doubts of one's own thought process makes one easy victims to
religious
authoritarian
control.
It's a sad commentary that current society is led to believe their life is
bereft of meaning
unless they look back to an archaic past found in the Bibles. Do people
really want to live by
the injunctions of biblical times? Do people rally want to go to an
immoral
past for their morals?
Do people of this century really want to hold slaves? Do husbands and
fathers really want
exclusive rights as arbiters of morals to fit their personal agenda? Do
husbands and fathers
really desire to hold their wives and children as chattel? Do fathers and
husbands really want
the authority to kill members of his father with impunity as the Bible
stories indicate? Do
husbands and fathers really want to go back to the time of the Bible where
there is a list of
offenses found in the Bible that deserved capital punishment that rational
people today would
find ludicrous?
Is it not true that those who read the sagas of biblical times are in the
same group as
those who are addicted to soap operas and People Magazine? Would you not
advise these
people "to get a life" of their own?
Is it not true that many do not trust their own sense of morality and have
to be told by
others what is moral or not? Is this not true of Christian
Reconstructionists? "The substitute
for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and
the substitute for
individual balance is fusion with others into a compact group."
"To the frustrated a mass movement offers substitutes either for the whole
self or for the
elements which make life bearable and which they cannot evoke out of their
individual
resources."
-The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 05:17:54 AM |
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In our last episode <V9mdnbxFBOV2OwDcRVn-hA@comcast.com>, Pete Hwr lept
out of the bushes shouting:
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in
accordance with their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely
inoffensive and teaches high moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can
possibly compare. All other religions are morally inferior.
Oh, I get it. It's unacceptable to hate *your religion. He's supposed to
hate the *other guy's religion...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Being surprised at the fact that the universe
is fine tuned for life is akin to a puddle being
surprised at how well it fits its hole"
-- Douglas Adams
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| User: "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Clayton...but were afraid to ask!" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 05:33:54 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:GaCdnfO5K6VzSADcRVn-2Q@megapath.net...
In our last episode <V9mdnbxFBOV2OwDcRVn-hA@comcast.com>, Pete Hwr lept
out of the bushes shouting:
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in
accordance with their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely
inoffensive and teaches high moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can
possibly compare. All other religions are morally inferior.
Oh, I get it. It's unacceptable to hate *your religion. He's supposed to
hate the *other guy's religion...
Did you notice his email address was "common sense now"?
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| User: "New10." |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
20 Nov 2004 02:31:47 PM |
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Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate.
It is interesting that you use the word hate. So, if you are against
something that equals hate?
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 06:25:39 PM |
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In our last episode <419e81fc$0$2675$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Clayton...but were afraid to ask!
lept out of the bushes shouting:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:GaCdnfO5K6VzSADcRVn-2Q@megapath.net...
In our last episode <V9mdnbxFBOV2OwDcRVn-hA@comcast.com>, Pete Hwr lept
out of the bushes shouting:
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in
accordance with their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely
inoffensive and teaches high moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism
can possibly compare. All other religions are morally inferior.
Oh, I get it. It's unacceptable to hate *your religion. He's supposed to
hate the *other guy's religion...
Did you notice his email address was "common sense now"?
So he was asking somebody email him some?
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Being surprised at the fact that the universe
is fine tuned for life is akin to a puddle being
surprised at how well it fits its hole"
-- Douglas Adams
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| User: "New10." |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 09:27:40 PM |
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Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate.
"Mark K. Bilbo"
Why is a criticism interpreted as hate?
New10
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| User: "alanm" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 05:21:25 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in message
news:GaCdnfO5K6VzSADcRVn-2Q@megapath.net...
In our last episode <V9mdnbxFBOV2OwDcRVn-hA@comcast.com>, Pete Hwr lept
out of the bushes shouting:
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in
accordance with their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely
inoffensive and teaches high moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can
possibly compare. All other religions are morally inferior.
Oh, I get it. It's unacceptable to hate *your religion. He's supposed to
hate the *other guy's religion...
That's right. It's a typical attitude of bigots.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Being surprised at the fact that the universe
is fine tuned for life is akin to a puddle being
surprised at how well it fits its hole"
-- Douglas Adams
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 06:19:53 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:17:54 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In our last episode <V9mdnbxFBOV2OwDcRVn-hA@comcast.com>, Pete Hwr lept
out of the bushes shouting:
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have
picked an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in
accordance with their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely
inoffensive and teaches high moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can
possibly compare. All other religions are morally inferior.
Oh, I get it. It's unacceptable to hate *your religion. He's supposed to
hate the *other guy's religion...
The moron's self-image about his religion won't let him grasp the
obvious
- that people don't hate the mythical
- that there's no hatred, just the _Reaction_ to the actions of people
such as him
- his flavour of Christianity is hardly inoffensive nor teaches high
moral values, but tries to impose itself and its own bigot red hatred
on others
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
19 Nov 2004 02:43:51 AM |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:55:24 -0800, "Pete Hwr"
<commonsensenow@comcast.net> wrote:
It is obvious that you hate one or more of the following: Christ
Christians
Christianity
It is obvious that you are yet another lying Christian who hates
anybody outside your delusion who uses their mind.
Which one is it? I must say, of all the world's religions, you have picked
an odd one to hate. While Christians do not always act in accordance with
their Gospels, the religion itself is extremely inoffensive and teaches high
moral values. Only Buddhism and Janism can possibly compare. All other
religions are morally inferior.
Look up "false dichotomy", moron.
You must be quite filed with hate if you hate Christ, Christians, or
Christianity.
You must be either fucking stupid or a deliberate liar.
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