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From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Religion is Religion, not history
Message-ID: <196@stat-l>
Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 20:36:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 20:36:22 1984
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This is getting really funny:

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

>>>>> 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"? 

	Time for lessons in reading again.  Note the presence of the word
"would" in the above statement.  (I even flagged it with a "*" for you.)

	Before you ask *why* I feel some way, you'd best be certain that
I *do* feel that way.

> 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)?

	This is irrelevant to the matter at hand.

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

	Amazing.  You've leapt to the conclusion that I have something
"against people" without a shred of evidence.  9 out of 10 for leaping
ability; minus several million for logical thinking.

	I don't have anything "against people", with certain exceptions,
both in the way of "things" and "people".  I just think it'd be a great joke.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec @ Purdue University Computing Center
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