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Originally posted by Geronimo
one with universally recognized jurisdiction over all speakers of english.
one with universally recognized jurisdiction over all speakers of english.
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Ah, you mean the same one with the rules about periods separating sentences, question marks denoting queries and all other practices that vary wildly across the English-speaking world?"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The god of the old testament has . . . . issues
Everyone has to die so that God will not be a dick. Isn't that obvious?Originally posted by Last Conformist
Jesus had to die so that God could admit he'd been a dick?I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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sure quote from that one!Originally posted by Kontiki
Ah, you mean the same one with the rules about periods separating sentences, question marks denoting queries and all other practices that vary wildly across the English-speaking world?
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This is probably why the Gnostics talk of two gods, the false god of the old testiment and the real creator, Jeshua's "father/mother"Originally posted by Arrian
God is growing up in the Old Testament, I think. He's a petulant child with unlimited power.
Then he becomes a dad and settles down some.
-ArrianChristianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Most people read it as a story (Teaching), not as a real occurance. It has been argued that it is even presented that way.Originally posted by Kidicious
I read the Book of Job recently. It occured to me that Job was not a real person. It's a story to teach something about why there is suffering in the world, or rather how we should behave in the face of it. I think anyone who can take stories like that as events that actually happened to real people needs to rethink things.
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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It's probably part of why. Another part is, I dare say, influence from the Iranian dualism of Ohrmizd and Ahriman (AKA Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, AKA umpteen other variants).Originally posted by chegitz guevara
This is probably why the Gnostics talk of two gods, the false god of the old testiment and the real creator, Jeshua's "father/mother"Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
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Job is definately what killed the ME religions for me. Flirted breiefly with paganism before becoming an aethist.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Heh.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
This is probably why the Gnostics talk of two gods, the false god of the old testiment and the real creator, Jeshua's "father/mother"
My dad likes to mess with an uber religious Aunt of mine. She's Catholic (at least so she says nowadays... started Catholic, went into some cult - Rosy Krushan or somesuch, then eventually came back to Catholicism, just in time to marry a well-off fellow dying of Altzimers). Anyway, he came up with this "theory" that God was really Satan. After all, look at the world? Who do YOU think is running things! Satan, of course!
I wonder if he got a rise out of her. He so dearly loves it.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Catholics are easy to bug
Just accuse them of idol worship, call Mary a whore and stand back
sure to have some good fireworksComment
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For me, the Leviticus-NT thing is most easily explained not by 'new covenants' or change-of-hearts, but by the simple fact that the Bible is the word of man, and not the word of god.
It cannot, in my view, be the word of god, because there is no god to utter words on this or anything else. It was the total nonsense written in the old testament that let me to this conclusion, because if there was an omnipotent deity s/he would not embarrass themselves with such tangled and embarrasing contradictions.Comment
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yeah me tooOriginally posted by Cort Haus
For me, the Leviticus-NT thing is most easily explained not by 'new covenants' or change-of-hearts, but by the simple fact that the Bible is the word of man, and not the word of god.
It cannot, in my view, be the word of god, because there is no god to utter words on this or anything else. It was the total nonsense written in the old testament that let me to this conclusion, because if there was an omnipotent deity s/he would not embarrass themselves with such tangled and embarrasing contradictions.
I actually wanted to believe in christianity, I probably still do. But trying to understand how the bible could be the word of God is what finally made me give up on the effort.
Didn't have much luck with the koran either but that would be a different thread.
Maybe materials Aneeshm listed will seem a bit more...divinely inspired for lack of a better phrase.Comment
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My Aunt traveled to Ohio to "see the Virgin Mary" in a flower or toilet or something like that. She's bat**** crazy.Originally posted by Japher
Catholics are easy to bug
Just accuse them of idol worship, call Mary a whore and stand back
sure to have some good fireworks
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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not a bad thing imhoOriginally posted by Japher
IMO, if you are looking for god in a book you will be looking for him foreverComment
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