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Subject: Re: Re: Christian Myths
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 19:56:47 EDT
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> In article <782@oakhill.UUCP> davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) writes:
> [munch....]
> me>>	Acts 13:41 (NIV) "Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for
> me>>I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe,
> me>>even if someone told you."
>>
>>What nasty words. Are you proud that these are in the Bible?
>>
>> -- Dave Trissel {ihnp4,siesmo}!ut-sally!im4u!oakhill!davet
> 
> 	Yes I am 'proud'. The *warning* is true if it applies....
> You could say to someone not to touch hot stove and they could just scoff
> at the idea.... which is a sad thing...This stove idea is just a parable
> of a much deeper concern and warning that arrogance can blind. 
> 	-It applies to all people...
> 
> # Mike Gore 

Isn't it more like "Don't THINK about touching that hot stove or you
will melt into a puddle of rotting flesh!!!  Yeah-uh, verily!  He who
laughs at my words will also melt!  For my stove is the stove of GOD!"

It doesn't matter that \I/ can touch a hot stove without getting burned!
I use the knobs, you see...

Even your analogy shows the kind of black & white world that people use
for interpreting the Bible.   It has its good parts and bad parts -- much
like the San Jose yellow pages.

I once asked a Jehova's Witness friend why their literature has so many
threats intertwined in the text.   I said "All of this amounts to little
more than extortion.  Join us, do what we say, and you can avoid this
horrifyingly violent death!  (quote from the Bibble about tongues rotting
in people's mouths and flesh rotting on their bones while they walk...)
'Sounds a lot like a threat to me..."
He said "But it's not extortion if it's true!"
           "Just because you rely on your god to DO the destroying
		doesn't excuse your exploiting the threat..."

Anyway, I've found that, like retail sales, the more pressure they use
on you to sell something, the less of a deal it is...
Religion appears to be similar -- the more forceful the religion, the
less evolved and enlightened.

Step right up!  Git yer back-stage pass to heaven!


Gary
HASA member
Heathen division
 

"Someday, I'd like to write-down all of mankind's misunderstandings
 about the world around them,  put it all in a hardcover book, and
 leave copies of it in every hotel room -- Oh!  Somebody beat me to it!"