On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:48:06 -0700, johac
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In article <bp9p03pmsj8viahgd4clrmnvu0e1fk3ebt@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:55:47 -0700, johac
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In article <trhm0310g5o2gvqhqk3cs8iqe5gvd8tle4@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:28:13 -0700, johac
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In article <56s25lF2a91leU1@mid.individual.net>,
Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:

After serious contemplation, on or about Monday 26 March 2007 6:54
pm
johac perhaps from

In article <l4pe03hg5vcg7qmtj7elj7fd9j9a79d60d@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:55:32 -0700, johac
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In article <088e03hqspdv5t3t549lpobb51dle2bt5d@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.
Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and
understanding,
and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know
nothing
but the word of God.
To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of
his
Reason.
"Die verfluchte Huhre, Vernunft." (The damned *****, Reason).

- Martin Luther, Works, Volume 22, c. 1543

You beat me to it. See my post in response to your "Atheists can
only trust their reason..." post

Spooky!
Maybe we should do the new course at that Pommy Uni on
Spoon-bending?

I took that last year. This year, I enrolled in Fork Bending 101.

Therein you will learn that forks bend much easier when they are
pre-bent and simply twisted with the fingers to give a different
perspective. Knowing that you can now skip classes and concentrate
on
dating the other students.

From that course? I don't know.

Are you kidding?
They can be talked into ANYTHING!!

Hm. You do have a good point there.

Oh, sorry.
It's this damn short kilt again.
I really must get me-self a heavier sporran.

A "True Scotsman" I see.

Aye, I like to feel the breeze between ma knees, d'ya ken?

--

After serious contemplation, on or about Thursday 29 March 2007 5:53 am
Michael Gray perhaps from

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:17:09 -0400, Darrell Stec
<darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:
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After serious contemplation, on or about Thursday 29 March 2007 12:58
am Michael Gray perhaps from

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:30:13 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-47B111.16301328032007@news.giganews.com>

In article <os6k035t5jkjrog9t1g617j5ko5108g8iq@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:30:07 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:22:26 -0700, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Al Klein wrote:

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:36:00 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

"I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone,
even the angels. He who does not receive my doctrine cannot
be saved"
-- Martin Luther Werke (Erlangen),XXIX , 217-33, on
Maritian, 15.

Maybe I'm just missing something here, but that sounds like
blasphemy
to me. Didn't Jesus say something that's entirely opposite?

Clearly you don't understand the bible... ;)

Thank God.

Thank you, Minerva!

Thank you Athena. (I'm old school.)

Get with it man!
Zeus told me peronally that Athena is, like, so "last eon".

Ashera is going to slap Zeus silly. Or is that Astarte? I keep
forgetting. But then so to did the early Canaanites who belonged to
them.

Didn't Solomon call her Astoreth, or something?

Yup and even worshiped her.

I'd like to see that in Ugarit cuneiform, if I may!
(With Photo ID, if possible)

I'm sorry but I am at disadvantage here. It seems I have temporarily
misplaced by copies here at the house and the JSTOR website is by
perscription, er, subscription only and I haven't yet bothered to put
my name on yet another Internet list. Big Brother is strong and
growing in the US.

And "Ashera" is the ancient Canaanite goddess of Amway and Tupperware.
I'm pretty sure that they were two different non-existent entities!

Next you will be dissing the Easter Bunny. Watch out! My sweetie has a
company that makes gourmet chocolates, gift baskets, etc and does a lot
of business at Easter Bunny time. You're getting into a sensitive
issue here. [Sorry I just had to practice my Fundamentalise and offer
a reply to a strawman that didn't exist in your post.]

I think that the Canaanites adopted Astoreth and amalgamated her into
Astarte. Ashera also seems to be the same goddess, and some scholars
think Isis is also the same. But whomever she is, she will still slap
Zeus silly, real or not.

In article <575bb0F2bvfiaU2@mid.individual.net>,
Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote:

After serious contemplation, on or about Thursday 29 March 2007 6:53
pm johac perhaps from

In article <tphm031a01cv66c4a0f019ar3tsco3c6ib@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:30:13 -0700, johac
<

In article <os6k035t5jkjrog9t1g617j5ko5108g8iq@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:30:07 -0400, Al Klein
<rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote:
- Refer: <5pkj031ib1nvpd4hghatruagf2lr7j0u05@4ax.com>

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:22:26 -0700, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Al Klein wrote:

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:36:00 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

"I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone,
even the angels. He who does not receive my doctrine
cannot be saved"
-- Martin Luther Werke (Erlangen),XXIX , 217-33, on
Maritian, 15.

Maybe I'm just missing something here, but that sounds like
blasphemy
to me. Didn't Jesus say something that's entirely
opposite?

Clearly you don't understand the bible... ;)

Thank God.

Thank you, Minerva!

Thank you Athena. (I'm old school.)

Get with it man!
Zeus told me peronally that Athena is, like, so "last eon".

Old Zeus putting his own daughter down? Did she tell Hera that he
was fooling around with Earth chicks again? I heard he knocked up
some Palestinian broad and then blamed it on some obscure desert
god. You won't believe the problems that caused!

That is thunder god and war god. His brother Azazel was the desert
god whom Yahweh insisted his constituents offer like sacrifices.
Unfortunately translators mistranslated the god Azazel into
'scapegoat' thus obfuscating the intent of that passage.

Azazel was Yaweh's pet goat?