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To: Chris land who wrote (32126)	3/7/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You didn't respond to my question about the leather-clad dominatrix. I am terribly disappointed. Imagine one with a crown of thorns, especially for you....

To: Chris land who wrote (32126)	3/7/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

One day back in the holy land, a bunch of men were about to stone a prostitute. Jesus stepped out before them and cried "let that one of you who is without sin cast the first stone!" The men stopped, but immediately a huge boulder came flying over their heads and crushed the woman instantly. Jesus turned around and shouted "Mom, sometimes you really piss me off!"

To: Chris land who wrote (32126)	3/12/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Chris, I don't look at the world in terms of religion, or of sin. I am an atheist, and I have no doubts at all that my beliefs are right for me. Certainly everyone has the right to their own spirituality, don't you think? I do accept that there was someone alive at that time in Jerusalem who was charismatic and attracted enough attention as a rebel that he was executed as a common criminal. Not very smart, if he wanted a long career of doing good works, but whatever. I am not sure that Jesus was his name, but there was some presence, and his ideas and beliefs were very radical for the time, more Buddhist than anything else. The fact that he is recognized as an avatar or prophet in the other major religions fits in with my belief that there have been several humans who were so strongly striking in what they taught or preached that they commanded wide and long attention, and that he was one of them. Jesus was not a Christian, however, and his followers totally corrupted his original teachings. The truth is the truth. Basic good and kind and healthy ways of living run through the original tenets of all the major religions, although they are often perverted by "true believers" with sinister motives or ignorant minds later. Speaking of perverted--and may I say also that this following story reinforces my beliefs not only about hypocrisy but about handgun control--read this: Rev. Guilty in Lover's Manslaughter NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A minister who claimed that his church's secretary was accidentally shot while they used a gun during foreplay was convicted Thursday of involuntary manslaughter. The jury found the Rev. Harvey Crews innocent of second-degree murder, which could have sent him to prison for 40 years. The jury recommended he get the maximum - 10 years - for the manslaughter charge. Crews, a 38-year-old married man, testified that he and Kathleen Eich, 43, his mistress of 21/2 years, had been drinking heavily and were preparing to have sex in his office at the Word of Faith Tabernacle last July. Crews said the two were talking about trust, the subject of a conference he had just attended, when he pulled a pistol out of his desk drawer. Ms. Eich, standing behind him, took the hand that was holding the gun and put it between her legs, Crews testified. Crews said that when he turned to pull back the gun, it went off. Prosecutors suggested that Crews and Ms. Eich had been arguing. Crews' estranged wife, Debbie, testified that she and Ms. Eich had been best friends and that she hadn't known about the affair. dailynews.yahoo.com