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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: A Fig for 'what's his name'.
Message-ID: <1156@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 11:47:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 11:47:21 1986
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Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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In article <251@prometheus.UUCP> pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) writes:
> In article <1150@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
> >And even if the tree is barren one year, it might bear the next.  Killing
> >the tree is simply wanton destruction.
> 
> Fig trees have deep roots and are extremely hardy compared with the 
> more common apple, peach, etc.,  which are more common hereabouts.  
> Consequently, they usually don't have "barren" years.  If this tree 
> wasn't fruiting there probably was something seriously and fatally 
> wrong.   Pruning diseased trees can be a good thing, even if you do 
> it with a damn!   

First, you're just guessing, since there's nothing in the Bible suggesting
that in the least.

Second, any god who can supposedly perform resurrections could surely have
performed a different miracle and caused the tree to spontaneously bear
fruit (or be cured, if your silly speculation is assumed.)

I'm disgusted by the common Christian attitude that "because we assume
god is good, we can make up any outlandish story we want to reinterpret
the bible to cast god in a favorable light."  You blatantly assume what
you want to prove, rather than examining the evidence (such as it is.)
--

Strephon: "Have you the heart to apply the prosaic rules of evidence to a
	   case brimming with such poetical emotion?"
Chancellor: "Distinctly."
	From "Iolanthe", by Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh