From: bakunin-AT-hushmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 04:15:21 -0600 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Fun With Christians???


My, my, Susan.  You just don't get it, do you?  

At Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:44:22 +1000, anti-sam <anti-sam-AT-lisp.com.au> wrote:

>
>> How is genocide ever out of context?  When is it proper to eradicate 
>an
>> entire people?
>> ...Well, God wasn't condoning genocide--he was simply trying to protect 
>the
>> Israelites.

And Hitler was only trying to protect the Germans.  Explain to me how it's 
different.  And god wasn't *condoning* genocide, he was *ordering* it.

<snip>
>It's great that you are looking at the correlations! ...

Correlations?  Contradictions you mean.  I sometimes think that there is 
a special variant of "logic" that only exists in, and can only be understood 
by, particular subgroups of religious believers.  I must admit that I take 
some degree of amusement out of it.  To imagine the mental acrobatics that 
people must go through to try to justify and "prove" their beliefs, to turn 
blatant contradiction into harmonious agreement, to rationalize the most 
stupid and atrocious activities, it's just amazing sometimes.  I guess it 
helps explain why so many of them go into politics.  Let's try one more 
just for fun.  Question:  Who was Joseph's father, Jacob or Heli?

"And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who 
is called Christ."
- Matthew 1:16
"And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was 
supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli"
- Luke 3:23

Was there a name change filed at the local Judean District Court, or what? 

>
>>  To put it more simply, Christianity is Silly.
>> I read your views on the Bible and Christianity with dismay. Please 
>think this all
>> through.
>> In love and truth, Susan.
>>

So, did you miss the bits about the origins of the NT and of the various 
Savior-Gods that existed before JC, or did you just not think about them?
   
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