From: "anar wally" <anarwally-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: re:the bible
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:17:25 PST


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>>I remember my philosophy and religion teacher saying once, not too 
long ago:
>>"The bible is not a scientific work, it's *literature*... no one 
expects
>>literature to be exact, it's the meanings that count."
>>To quote old goat: nuff said
>>
>>Diversity and Unity
>>
>>Marius
>>------------------
>It's not liturature, it's the direct word of God. Is it not? There are
>tenents that the religion is based upon, just like anarchism, for which 
you
>can not waver and must take a stand. 
>Here's a quote:
>
>"If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal 
hatered,
>verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that 
would
>shock the heart of a hyena.
>It may be that no book contains better passages than the New Testament, 
but
>certainly no book contains worse. 
>Below the blossom of love you find the thorn of hatred; on the lips 
that
>kiss, you find the poison of the cobra. 
>The Bible is not a moral guide."
>Robert Ingersoll
>
>Hlden
>
>
Obviously someone who doesn't understand the Bible.  And a non-biased 
source of information to boot!

wally

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