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

To: Greg or e who wrote (16525)	3/3/2004 2:03:24 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"Perhaps you can point me to some ancient examples of losers who have recorded their own defeats in battle" You may not be that ancient but you are a wonderful example. ;-) "As for the basic reliability of the bible as history, the book of Acts is but one example of first class historical accuracy. If archeology confirms the basic facts of the narrative then the other historical claims, even though they may not be verifiable, cannot be dismissed." That is not how it works. There are thousands of "facts" in Dickens. There may even be an Oliver Twist in London. But the story is invented. Acts is a transparent attempt a century after the fiction to further a Church movement. It is a silly glance amongst thousands of religions. Get over it, Greg! Climb a tree like Fred. You will be closer to "God" than you have ever been while spilling ketchup over silly fables and brutal stories. For most people, the obvious brutality, violence, and absurdity of any of our myths from primitive thinkers would be sufficient to sicken them and turn them to another path. What is it about people who are attracted to the absurd and the ugly? I mean...really? You work a wheel; you create things; you give life to blunt matter. How can you be so unaware of the fact that Yahweh is one of THOUSANDS of Gods? You watch the world slaughtering over religion and are incapable of recognizing that your conceit and ignorance is fully as great as theirs? I am sorry to speak so bluntly. I would love to mash mud and spittle into your eyes so that you might see and walk tall and free. I would love to drive your Demons out and frighten them into the sea. But then the snakes and the donkeys start to talk and we are back where we began.