Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: sobarr@ucsd.edu (Carlos Saul Menem) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: A modest proposal for the Sabbath Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 23:31:34 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 56 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu ************************************************************************* 8-) THIS IS A SATIRE, AND NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY (-8 ************************************************************************* Time, one of the most interesting mysteries arround. I understand the importance of time as written by the prophets of old, and have seen how the thinking of men have perverted the true meaning of time, and devided the days of worship, all put there by the evil one himself. Case in point, the Sabbath. As taught by the Jews, it is >From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. But there is a problem, at anyone point in time, there are two days on the earth. This concept was started in 1884 when an international conference of astronomers metting in Washington, DC decided that the line passing through Great Britain's Greenwich Observatory would become the prime meridian of the earth. Obviously these were not God abiding men for they devided the Sabbath in two. This defilement of the Sabbath was told of long ago in Daniel 7:24-25 where it says "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall subdue three kings. "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS:..." Here the evil workings of "another" [ie the "universal" conference of astonomers] are brought to light. They, without regard to the Holy Scriptures decided that everything west of the Greenwich Meridian was one day behind that east of the meridian. This decision was totally arbitrary. For example. It is first Friday in Jerusalem, and then about eight-eleven hours later, its Friday in the US (depending on where you live, excluding Hawaii and Alaska). Now how do we know that Friday in the US shouldn't come before the Friday in Jerusalem? Thus putting in question the true day that the Sabbath Day should be observed. This means that we could be breaking the Sabbath Day depending upon which one of the two views above are correct in the sight of God. But the FACT remains, and is unchangable, GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS LAWS TO FIT THE WHIMS OF HUMAN CONFERENCES!! I propose that we observe both the day before and after the Jerusalem Sabbath to make sure that we do not recieve the WRATH of God, for surely it is one of the ten commandments to keep the Sabbath day Holy. God's Sabbath and not any arbitarily set, and universally accepted day. en cristo un pecador y un mal observador del sabado del sen~or flaco