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Religions > Atheism |
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"Mike Painter" |
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08 Jun 2007 07:35:32 PM |
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"money answereth all things." |
From Randi's column today.
Reader William B. Keith of Houston, Texas, gives me two quotations that I'm
sure have sent the Bible-thumpers scurrying to find rationalizations. Says
Mr. Keith:
If a person believes every word of the Bible, that is in the King James
version, then he believes that "money answereth all things." That's from
Ecclesiastes 10:19:
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry, but money answereth
all things.
ALL things. "All" means everything. If salvation is a real thing then money
answers salvation. Don't ask me how, I don't even know how a man or a god or
a man-god or a god-man dying on a cross could save me. I guess I am not
supposed to understand, I am just supposed to believe it like an idiot. Of
course I don't think he ever did, it was just a trick. Maybe they really do
use money in heaven.
In Ecclesiastes 3:18-19 it says that mankind is beasts (animals, mammals)
and that man has no preeminence above a beast.
I never hear or read of the creationists and intelligent design people
quoting those scriptures. Why? Are they ignorant of them or are they just
ignorant in general?
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Take a CPR class and get your community involved in an AED program.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: "money answereth all things." |
21 Jun 2007 10:57:15 PM |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:35:32 -0700, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in alt.atheism
From Randi's column today.
Reader William B. Keith of Houston, Texas, gives me two quotations that I'm
sure have sent the Bible-thumpers scurrying to find rationalizations. Says
Mr. Keith:
If a person believes every word of the Bible, that is in the King James
version, then he believes that "money answereth all things." That's from
Ecclesiastes 10:19:
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry, but money answereth
all things.
ALL things. "All" means everything. If salvation is a real thing then money
answers salvation. Don't ask me how, I don't even know how a man or a god or
a man-god or a god-man dying on a cross could save me. I guess I am not
supposed to understand, I am just supposed to believe it like an idiot. Of
course I don't think he ever did, it was just a trick. Maybe they really do
use money in heaven.
In Ecclesiastes 3:18-19 it says that mankind is beasts (animals, mammals)
and that man has no preeminence above a beast.
I never hear or read of the creationists and intelligent design people
quoting those scriptures. Why? Are they ignorant of them or are they just
ignorant in general?
Yes.
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Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is
unable to believe things for which there is
no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of
a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
—Chaz Bufe, The American Heretic’s Dictionary
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