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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Religion is Religion, not history
Message-ID: <1497@pucc-h>
Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 19:05:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 19:05:19 1984
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This is getting a bit funny:

>>>> = Ken Nichols
>>>  = Rich Kulawiec
>>   = Jeff Sargent
>    = Rich Kulawiec

>>>> Are you trying to say that it's possible that the writers of the Bible got
>>>> together and concocted this scheme to deceive millions of people?

>>> Sure, why not?

>> What on earth would it gain them?

>	It would be a great joke on all the millions of idiots down through
> the years silly enough to believe them.  Hell, I'd do it if I thought I
> could pull it off.

Why is it that you consider people whose lives have been and are being
changed infinitely for the better through belief in Christ "idiots" and
"silly"?  Just because such belief involves giving yourself to a higher
Power, giving up all the baggage of self-importance and all the grief that
comes from trying to run your life entirely under your own power, losing your
life that you may find it (one of the many paradoxes of Christianity whose
truth I am beginning to learn)?

Also, what do you have against people that you would even want to deceive them?

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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"I'm not asking for anyone's bleeding charity."
"Then do.  At once.  Ask for the Bleeding Charity."