> On 5 Mar, 17:46, Linda Lee
juno.com> wrote:
And here Roger sums up his entire knowledge:
> As an amateur, long ago, I noticed that any amount of misstatements
> went around about what the early Christians said or did. Often these
> were simply cases of mistake in good faith.
>
Yet he wants us to think his opinions have any value. He is an unstudied
amateur. PERIOD.
> As an amateur, I felt that the best response to all this was for us to
> put the full text of the Fathers online.
And, yet as an amateur he expects us to place any value in the people he has
chosen as translators when their are many to chose from. And as an Amateur
he cannot read the originals so he has no idea of whether those
translations have any other value other than as a very poor substitute for
toilet paper.
But thanks ever so much for underscoring your qualifications to expound on
the topics you foul with your piffle.
> There is, after all, way too much opinion online and not enough data.
And yet the amateur Roger Dodger wants to add to that opinion with his
amateurish knowledge he gained from memorizing the Fundie Catechism 101.
> One thing that I am experimenting with, is commissioning some
> translators to create an English version of a hitherto untranslated
> text by Eusebius of Caesarea, on contradictions in the gospels and
> their solutions (Quaestiones ad Stephanum et ad Marinum). I'll try to
> sell the result in book form using print on demand. That way I might
> get at least some of the money back (these chaps charge like the
> dickens) and once sales dry up, post the translation online.
>
Ah so the motive of his denial that Eusebius said lying to promote the faith
is finally revealed. He wants to make a buck on it. Of course he will
probably find enough suckers who will believe his books, provided they ever
reach fruition. However finding any Fundie scholars who can do the
translating is going to be difficult. Most of the old scholars who hold to
rigid orthodoxy are dead, and belonged to religious organizations so would
not be out for hire anyway. Today all he might have left to him are honest
translators who do not tow the fundie line. (He might be able to convince
Jeff Gibson or Steve Carlson as they are ultra conservative but they are
probably too busy chasing the dollar too and if he can barely afford his
website, he can't afford them either.)
> If I could get the money back this way, then there is a vast array of
> useful texts for which no translation exists in any modern language,
> and I would send the money round again and again and see what
> happened. If I were a dotcom millionaire then I'd just do it! As it
> is, I have to find a way somehow that a poor man can pay people to do
> stuff for us all.
So much for him actually believing in the bible. What ever happened to " go
sell what you have, give it to the poor, and come follow me"? Perhaps
Roger isn't all that concerned with reaching heaven anyways. He is here on
alt.atheism to play the troll. And yet he calls those on alt.atheism who
do not believe in god, religion or the bible trolls for writing such on
their own newsgroup.
Funny how that mind of his works. (About as well as a Chevy with a hamster
wheel in place of a motor).
>
> Roger Pearse
