On Apr 17, 11:12Â am, Christopher A. Lee optonline.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:59:36 -0700 (PDT), Hatter gmail.com>
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>>On Apr 17, 10:38Â am, Christopher A. Lee optonline.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:33:33 -0700 (PDT), Hatter gmail.com>
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>>>>> About my nym - Truthfinder - is that I Have found the Truth in the Bible
>>>>> and see the truth in creation! Â Others do not have to and they can keep
>>>>> eternally searching but never finding the Truth!
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>>>>Those that capitalize the word "truth" in the middle of a sentence
>>>>generally have little idea how far away they are from truth.
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>>>>The Bible is just one mythology amongst hundred that mankind has
>>>>produced.
>>>>It is equally invalid, and requires a level of suspension of disbelief
>>>>I can no longer muster as an adult. Just because you still need some
>>>>sort of celestial santa claus just is evidence of your lack of sense.
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>>> What particularly bugs me about these morons, is that they expect
>>> those outside their religion to take it seriously. Even those who were
>>> never indoctrinated into it in the first place.
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>>That is why I use the term "gibbering tribal primitive." Christians:
>>you see that guy called a shaman with beads in his hair, a bone
>>throught his nose, shaking his magic rattle and talking about the
>>wrath of the Volcano God? Yeah...how you see him is pretty much how I
>>see you.
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> If you like Dr Who, there's a series that is a commentary on religion,
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> "Planet of Fire" is on youtube, but it's split into a lot of 10 minute
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> It's one of my favourites, and not just for Peri appearing out of the
> sea like Venus, in a bikini.
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> The descendents of a crashed space ship are a tribe of humans, with a
> leader but their priest/shaman is the real power, with a religion that
> treats a space suit as its god. At the end he burns himself to death
> saying to the doctor "you'll never understand".
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I liked that one, but haven't seen it in years. Yes, that Peri moment
is most mamorable....I mean memorable.
Hatter