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

To: E. Charters who wrote (7549)	5/31/2001 8:59:17 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Behold, I am Lot. beloved of God. I didst offer my two daughters to be raped by some passersby. They didst refuse their virgin flesh. Now my wife has been turned into a pillow of salt; so I have made both my daughters pregnant by my own loins. We all drank wine and ate peanuts. This incest will result in the the most famous of circus acts--General Tom Thumb--but that is far ahead and long away. I am Lot--a very just and righteous man of the Lord. I have Absolute Morality. Go forth and teach it to society so that it, too, may be moral and decent--just as am I--Lot. Would you kids please trample another skin of grapes for dear dad...

To: E. Charters who wrote (7549)	6/7/2001 9:40:53 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Modern translations are quickly removing the cobwebs from old bible passages. goatism.org Goat Religion Joseph's Goat of Many Colours Yiddish Old Testament authority Stephen Heliczer has announced the discovery of a centuries old typographical error which has led to a clumsy misinterpretation of Genesis 37-50. Apparently, during an early copying of the scriptures, a scribe made an error so that "G" was mistaken for "C", causing a radical reinterpretation of the intended tale about Joseph and his Goat of Many Colours. Heliczer goes on to explain that the error was pointed out by traditionalists at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., but was hushed up following the direct intervention of the Emperor Constantine. He suggests that the surprising interest in this issue taken by Constantine may simply reflect his impatience at the Council's dilatoriness in condemning the Arian heresy. However, Heliczer also considers the controversial idea that Constantine was keen to have licentious behaviour eradicated from the Christian World, and so may have insisted upon the suppression of a Biblical tale involving bestiality. Heliczer's interpretation allows for the possibility that Joseph's wearing of the Goat of Many Colours could be translated as his being covered or mounted by it - an act witnessed by his brothers who, outraged by his behaviour, expelled him. To spare the feelings of their father, Jacob, and to preserve the family honour, they killed the goat and returned it, covered in blood, to their father so that he would think that Joseph and the goat had been killed by a wild animal, which had eaten Joseph. Heliczer points out that, even in the version of the story that survived after censorship, Joseph's lack of interest in sex with women is well documented: "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said Lie with me. But he refused..." Genesis 39.7-8 and again, when there was no-one else around: "And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled..." Genesis 39.12 QED. Pantheism Pantheists consider God and the world to be identical; and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe. Clearly this gives natural religious expression to the goatist philosophical thesis. It is further worth noting that the Greek god Pan had the physical characteristics of a goat, and that his name was associated in antiquity with 'pan' which meant 'all'.