On 9 May, 13:57, Merlin <merlina...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> just consider the genome of the platapus.
I blame the state of the platypus on that bunch of old idiots from the
Unseen University.
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> On May 8, 6:43=A0pm, RichD <r_delaney2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > On May 8, Puppet_Sock <puppet_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > > > =A0 1) Christ died for your sins.
> > > > > =A0 2) If you do not sin, Christ died in vain.
> > > > > =A0 3) Get on with it.
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> > > > And don't forget: without the Jooos, =A0Jesus
> > > > would have lived to ripe old age, no
> > > > crucifixion, no salvation! =A0Thank God
> > > > for those cursed rabbis and their plotting!
>
> > > You give the Roman Empire insufficient credit.
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> > Pilate had no beef with Jesus, who was a spiritual
> > sort - "render unto Caesar..." - it was the rabbis
> > who felt threatened, and lobbied for Jesus' execution.
> > And so we are saved!
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> > > > > Yahweh is singularly disinterested in human suffering
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> > > > "uninterested"
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> > > Nope. Unc got it right.
> > >http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
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> > That dictionary is questionable. =A0By custom, the
> > words are not synonymous.
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> > > > > In the whole of human
> > > > > history across the entire planet not one deity has volunteered
> > > > > Novocain. =A0It is a telling omission.
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> > > > Why?
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> > > Deities supposedly know how to do a lot of stuff. Novocain is
> > > a fairly simple thing to create if you know how.
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> > I don't. =A0How?
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> > > If deities exist (other than as silly fantasies of pathological
> > > minds) and if they really are smarter than the humans who
> > > made them up, then they should surely know enough to
> > > know how to relieve pain. And if they had relieving suffering
> > > as part of their motive, they would have done so at some
> > > point in history.
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> > > They never did.
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> > > So, either no deity ever had relieving suffering as part of
> > > its motive, or no deity ever existed other than as fantasy.
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> > So you concede the possible existence of a Creator,
> > who does not interfere in natural events; the blind
> > watchmaker. =A0 That is the faitheists' posiition: man
> > has free will, to make of this world as we please,
> > for good or ill.
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