On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:56:18 -0500, Uncle Vic
withheld.com> wrote:
>One fine day in alt.atheism, duke
cox.net> bloodied us up
>with this:
>>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:11:32 -0500, Uncle Vic
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>> wrote:
>> >>>>>Hinduism is older than any surviving western religion,
>>>>>so I guess it must be better than Catholicism on
>>>>>account of that alone.
>>
>>>> The trees and the rivers don't save anyone.
>>
>>>Neither do marble statues of jeebuses.
>>
>> Wow, I'm beginning to see a small light come on in your head, vs. It
>> sure took you long enough to begin to realize that.
>>
>> Talking to a picture of a deceased loved one doesn't help either. But
>> that picture sure does put you in a state of remembrance, doesn't it.
>>
>
>Remembrance of someone who was once alive, and that photograph proves that
>person was once alive. All we have of jebus are artistic renderings.
>Statues, carvings, paintings, etc., and not one looks the same - which
>means it's totally reliant on the imagination of the artist. Jesus is
>imaginary.
How do you know what Jesus looked like, vs? I see the one Jesus the Lord
whether I see him as a babe in the arms of Mary, tending his sheep, praying on
his knees to his Father, dying on the cross, or ascending to his Father.
duke, American-American
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"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
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