To: James Calladine who wrote (33379 ) 12/22/2001 7:52:50 AM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 39621 Another one of the greatest contrived hoaxes ever played upon the consciousness of poor hapless humans by priests emperors and rulers conspiring together . And from simple unenlightened poor and wretched mad "prophets" that are stumbling their way thru the deserts in the books of the old testaments. Such craziness and ignorance. Just think of how artificially created this belief in "Sin" all is ? How childishly transparent the ruse to get people to believe in , and allow their minds to be burdened all their lives with this erroneous and most foolish of beliefs, the belief of "Evil" and "Sin" and Eternal Damnation . It is from out of the lust of Self , ambition for place & power some priests and rulers have used this false doctrine for centuries to control and dominate the poor believers and keep them under their sway, spell-bound in fear of transgressing ...obeying the priests and rulers every command . It is more than a little obvious why this construct was created , with the promise of Heaven and Elysian Fields being linked directly with only one Savior , so that the priests ,popes and rulers could hold the "Keys" to power over the masses , while they had their ways and pretended to be the chosen representatives of that long distant Messiah and God here on earth...they were the ones that knew the "Way" , etc. History is rife with the abuse of this wicked doctrine of Sin and evil , and it has kept people living in fear for needless uncounted centuries. That's why they built Pyramids so the King and Priests could stand far up above and appear to the masses down below, as if they were linked themselves to heaven and were hand&hand with the Sun (of) God . The theology of Sin , Satan & Evil was contrived and born from the lust for power and control and ignorance , and was never found coming from any "divine" source . This theology has done little for the advancement of the human spirit or for understanding reality and the world as it truely is (not evil) , except oppress it . Like the absurd belief in "Miracles" and the suspension of natural laws ; rising from the dead , stopping the rotation of the Earth , parting the sea, walking on the water , raising the dead etc , these are the --->crumbling creeds of ancient confused and ignorant superstitions . Natural Law and what is inherent within Man is essentially good always , and the best of human nature is not Sinful or Evil....there is only ignorance. What a confused , superstitious , limited , and completely outmoded way of thinking is this ? Not long from now, this kind of rediculous dogma will pass away from the earth at the last, and replaced with purer knowledge and enlightenment that can be found within every human heart . regards ;-) Mars