26 December 2005
"Richard Dawkins" <Dawk...@Hell.com> wrote in message
news:yQddf.92$Bm3.1941@news.uswest.net...
1.. You became an atheist when you were 10 years old, based on ideas of
God that you learned in Sunday School. Your ideas about God haven't
changed since.
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18.. Going with the definition of "without a belief in God", you insist
that all people are born atheists, and that dogs, cats, rocks, and trees
are as well. You make statements like, "My dog is an atheist. Ask him
about his lack of belief."
19.. You believe that if something cannot be touched, seen, heard, or
measured in some way, then it must not exist, yet you fail to see the
irony of your calling Christians "narrow-minded".
20.. You say that there is no God and that those who believe in God do so
in blind faith, yet your claim that there is no God also rests on blind
faith.
21.. While you don't believe in God, you feel justified on bashing God or
attacking those who believe in something that you KNOW doesn't exist,
fighting against or even discussing about a non-existent being are the
symptoms of mental illness!
You complain when Christians appeal to their emotions when justifying
their belief in God yet you feel justified on appealing to your emotions
for lack of belief in God.
In that sense "Richard Dawkins" <Dawkins@Hell.com> isn't and can never be
Christian--because they remain silent in the face of the abuses--That they
are not appalled, if not embarassed at the egoism {ie. the doctrine that the
self-interest of the individual is the basis of all behaviour} and haughty
{ie. disdainfully proud; arrogant; supercilious [ref: Macquarie Australian
Dictionary]} silence amongst people's of religious values concerning
Internet based racialism {ie. a false sense of 'our sperm is holy' we are
better than you} as abuses.
"In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:
whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not
his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore
slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed
from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his
brother abideth in death.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him. Hereby perceive we the love of God,
because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for
the brethren. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the
love of God in him?" [1 John 3:10-17]
How is it you think it is 25 December and you don't pay attention to the
Scritpure's cosmogony {ie. a theory or story of the genesis or origin of
the universe}?
Pope Benedict XVI has used his first Christmas message to issue a wake-up
call to Catholics and to all humanity. Addressing thousands in St Peter's
Square, the pope said people of the 21st Century risked becoming 'victims of
their intellectual achievements'. [Courtesy and Copyright 2005, BBC
Interactive News, 'Pope asks for spiritual 'wake-up'', Sunday, 25 December
2005, 14:07 GMT, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4558956.stm> ]
"For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power
and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because although they knew
God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile
in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be
wise, they become fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into
an image made like corruptible man--THE LIKENESS OF MALE AND FEMALE, the
likeness of any beast that is on the earth, or the likeness of any winged
bird that flies in the air." [Deuteronomy 4:16-17; Romans 1:20-23]
#A = 22/7 as 3W1D with an implied Wednesday 20 March equinox/new moon 21
March/1 Nisan as 'oth 294 year [24 x 7 x 13] cycle {ie. 294 x 364 = 293 x
365.2425 days}
#[X] = + 9(9²+1)/2 as #369 with 7 x #41 centre (#41 = 13 to 17 September
2001)
#A = Solar eclipse Monday 25 December 2000 (122J3W1D) = 20 x 6J + 2J + 3W1D
(22 years)
If the "Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters" [Genesis 1:1] is
the same Spirit that allows us to see Christ with 'unveiled face, beholding
as in a mirror the glory of the Lord', [2 Corinthians 3:7-18] why then the
lack of clarity and substantiation to an otherwise axiomatic basis to
religious belief?
- dolf
- <http://home.iprimus.com.au/telos/>
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