On 2/13/08 12:19 AM, in article
2008021216195475249-thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Andrew"
<thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-02-12 01:59:02 +0000, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
said:
>
>>
>>
>> Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-02-11 16:02:11 +0000, "Bill M" <wmech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He created Adam from dirt and Eve from Adam's rib.
>>>
>>> Myth Bill. Do TRY to understand.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then he 'supposedly' created Jesus, a god on earth, by impregnating
Mary
>>>> and
>>>> having Jesus live a relatively normal childhood. He was a carpenter
in his
>>>> adulthood until he was 30.
>>>
>>> Actually the Bible nowhere says that Jesus ever followed Joseph's
trade.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then for one, two or three years (depending on which Bible you wish
to
>>>> believe)
>>>>
>>>> he lectured to a very small ****tion of the world population about his
>>>> wishes
>>>> and commands.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why did he place himself on earth in such an irrational fa****on? Why
didn't
>>>> he just follow Adam's simple direct process of coming to earth?
>>>
>>> I hadn't realised that being born was all that irrational. Come on
Bill
>>> - you must have done it too.;
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He apparently was incapable
>>>
>>> or perhaps didn't
>>>
>>>> of reproducing his teaching in any permanent
>>>> form as
>>>>
>>>> there are no original records of his existence or teaching. All that
exists
>>>> are copies of copies by other men of totally unknown veracity and
accuracy.
>>>> There are NO originals - just copies of unknown origin. How can we
know
>>>> what the originals said?
>>>
>>> We can't. But what we have works for us.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why would an all powerful God creator provide his creations with such
>>>> inaccurate
>>>
>>> err... Bill. If we don't know what the originals said, how do we know
>>> that what we have is inaccurate?
>>>
>>>> and questionable instructions?
>>>
>>> Because God likes open-minded questioning folks.
>>
>> There it is again - the dead giveaway.
>>
>> Here's a puny little human telling other humans what his god likes, a
god the
>> idiots think created the entire universe and needs puny little men to
speak
>> for
>> it. If you god existed birdbrain it would speak for itself.
>
> I hadn't realised that atheism encourages human beings to have such a
> poor view of themselves. That's right - we're "puny", we're "little".
> Why not go for "insignificant" while you're at it? Now what was that
> you were saying recently about Bertrand Russell, religion and
> self-respect? And more to the point, Bill asked a question - why should
> I not answer it as best I can
If your god existed birdbrain it would speak for itself.
>
>> [I suppose now we will get another childish response like 'it does']
>>
>> go away and get an education
>>
>>> And whatever the cae,
>>> those instructions have worked for billions of people for thousands of
>>> years, so they can't be doing all that badly.
>>
>> Just a few years ago billions in China thought Mau Tse Tung was a god,
>
> Did they??? I was under the impression that Communist China was atheist
> - and what a fine body of work your co-religionists did over there.
Yes indeed it is now paying off and within the next ten years the economy
of
China will be greater than that of the USA. Nothing to do with imaginary
gods, plain old fa****oned hard work. When half the USA are out of work I
will give them some free advice, praying in those thousands of chapels all
over the country to an imaginary god is not going to do ANY good at all
>
>> but they
>> were wrong. Try buying one of his Little Red Books today. And your
bible
>> will
>> go the same way eventually, as common sense and logic takes over from
>> mythology
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The whole God/Jesus story is about as believable as Aesop's Fables.
>>>
>>> So you say Bill. Is this a good time for me to type "opinion" in
>>> capital letters?
>>
>> Of course you could try to prove he is wrong. but you know you can't
so you
>> won't
>
> You can't prove an opinion that does not have facts to back it up right
> or wrong. It's an OPINION. Look the word up
Nice smug counter to a question you cannot answer. At times I feel so
sorry
for you brainwashed otherwise normal decent humans [I take that as being
the
case, but I have no real way of finding out for sure.]
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