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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26715)	12/8/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

>and if His existence was not deniable then their would be no choice < So God purposefully makes it difficult to believe - and yet he created the minds of some of us to function at a level that does not admit belief. Rather a cruel and perverse God, eh? Assuming that he does want you to believe. Perhaps the Bible is a test to weed out the credulous. The people that believed in it and other deities that make no sense, get to go to their version of "heaven" and maybe the rest of us get to hang out somewhere else and laugh at y'all. That is a joke less cruel than the joke the Bible plays and while I can't actually believe it, yet it greatly appeals to my notions of fair play.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26715)	12/8/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

All the great men I quoted believed strongly in God as Deists. Einstein being a hebrew had nothing to do with his convictions. You ask for proof Jesus did not exist and proof he was not God. First You prove he lived and I will refute. You cannot say search for the truth unless you can first apply the rule to yourself. I have searched for truth which is self evident by my quotes of scrolls of the times of a.d. All reading my posts can judge who has searched and who hasn't. Who shall estimate the difference in world history since the third century if this knowledge of the sages of Egypt that man is now undergoing trial in the Hall of Judgment on this mount of the double equinox, on the morning and evening horizons of evolution, had not been lost to western humanity through the fatal triumph of ignorance and bigotry over chaste wisdom? Christendom has been taught that the individual can perpetrate what heinousness he will in this life, and wait a millennium before being brought to reckoning. The certitude of the instant judgment of the two Maat goddesses has been obscured or denied. Western man has been deprived of the definite knowledge that the consequences of his acts are in immediate reaction upon him. The shadow of the law has been deludedly removed from his mind and conscience, with the result that human life has proceeded largely without consideration of the certainty of justice. And with this sense of immunity bolstered by the concomitant doctrines of a vicarious atonement and the forgiveness of sins, the misguided mind of Occidental man has indulged in such revelries of license and heedlessness as history has not recorded in another period. The assurance that the world is under law, that acts carve the shape of destiny, is scarcely to be found in Western areas. The habitual philosophy of the "average" mind of modern civilized nations consists of the hazy notion that the Eyes of Maati are mostly asleep, and that the theological Day of Judgment, if it is to come at all, is a long way off. All the while the arms of that Balance on the hill of the horizon in the twilight are moving, and they are the pen of Taht-Aan inscribing the record.