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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (957)	9/20/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Yep. Any time you abandon reason, you pretty much can assert anything. The devil is in you, your kid, your neighbor, Prussia, or a lake near Lucerne. Oh, jeez, just about anything you want. I don't have "reasons" or need "reason" because "I believe". Martin Luther looks wacked even compared to the most extreme Branch Davidians, Peoples' Temple, or alas, the syphilitic Idi Amin who clogged the Aswan Dam down stream with the corpses of his victims. This is the alternative to the Inquisition? Some choice!! I think I'd have gone found a fiord somewhere and lived off the salmon and reindeer, and pretty much kept my pagan ways to myself.

To: Solon who wrote (957)	9/20/2000 3:34:23 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 28931

Hi Solon It's pretty easy to be critical some 400 years removed. Perhaps you could supply us with some of your heros from that period and we could pick some random quotes that would make them appear unsophisticated and silly. according to Bainton, Luther came from a family atmosphere of "peasantry: rugged, rough, at times coarse, credulous, and devout. ....Certain elements even of old German paganism were blended with Christian mythology in the beliefs of these untutored folk. For them the woods and winds and water were peopled by elves, gnomes, fairies, mermen and mermaids, sprites and witches. ...Luther's mother believed that they played such minor pranks as stealing eggs, milk, and butter; and Luther himself was never emancipated from such beliefs." I wonder if in 400 years people will be compiling all the silly things you have said on this thread and having a good laugh? Somehow I doubt it. Have a good day Greg