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Old 11-17-2004, 08:47 PM   #11
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Here: http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/mi_iraq.htm

At first I thought it was a satire as it is so extreme. But he has other articles on the same sort of thing
Wow! That was one of the most mindlessly stupid pieces of uninformed crap I have ever read. I had the same reaction, Bede. It reads like satire. John "Jengis" Kerry?????

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But there were a lot of atheists who supported Bush - most notably Christopher Hitchens, and all of those neo-con former Trotskyites.
Yeah, but with Hitchens I wrote it off to his penchant for shock. Here one can only quote Price himself:
  • "Don't you feel it is kind of pathetic when these celebrities speak on political matters as if they knew what they were talking about and expected to be taken seriously by their fans?"

Perhaps, as we grind on into defeat in Iraq, Price should stick to his of expertise, writing illuminating and informative books about the NT.

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Old 11-17-2004, 09:00 PM   #12
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Still, this thread is entertaining. :rolling:

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Old 11-17-2004, 09:23 PM   #13
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Oh crap.
I can't believe it.
Price has become a raving, war-mongering maniac who is waxing lyrical about Bush's visionary leadership! Jesus Fucking God!

Sample this dreck:

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...But there are three things we can do to lower the level of fighting in Iraq. First, take down Syria...Second, take down Iran...Third, partition Iraq, nipping in the bud the danger of a civil war between the three main factions...This will panic Turkey, who fear Kurdish independence would strike the match to the powder keg among their own Kurdish population...Carve out the Sunni Triangle, where we have most of our trouble from the Saddam/Baathist loyalists...Next door, a smaller Iraq (though still larger than Sunni Mesopotamia would be) would be ruled at last by a Shi’ite majority...I see all of this as a natural extension of the visionary policies of President Bush...
Is he on drugs?
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Old 11-17-2004, 09:44 PM   #14
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So there is now no one of note arguing for the Jesus Myth. I suppose Doherty realised he was getting nowhere and decided to pick on easier targets like Strobel.
Since you appear to have nowhere else to vent your frustrations with the Jesus Myth theory, I can understand your heavy sarcasm.

But you wouldn't know "getting nowhere" from "getting somewhere" wrt the Jesus Myth theory since your position has always been hopelessly unbalanced and confused. So your opinion on whether there have been any gains or losses by the Jesus myth theory has little entertainment value.

Its evocative of a blind man commenting on how ugly the sunset is.
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Old 11-17-2004, 09:51 PM   #15
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The citation I offered in the OP about America sliding to medievalism, which I attributed to Zindler, is actually Doherty's.

Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: What is Happening to America?
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Oh crap.
I can't believe it.
Price has become a raving, war-mongering maniac who is waxing lyrical about Bush's visionary leadership! Jesus Fucking God!

Is he on drugs?
He's on fire for the Lord and that is a lot worse.
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Old 11-17-2004, 10:26 PM   #17
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He's on fire for the Lord and that is a lot worse.
He could be both, now that's a tragedy! :banghead:
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He's on fire for the Lord and that is a lot worse.
Enlighten us with your mystical insights.
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Enlighten us with your mystical insights.
Now I wish that I would not have written that post. It was just a cheap shot, really, but itself is true nonetheless.

In my opinion the masterplan behind this all is to clean up Israel and find a home for those damn Palistinians so JC can come back. The nation Isreal must be holy and pure before this happens and that is what they are working on.

To achieve this they will have the rest of the world as their enemy but that is biblical and in their favor as they see it. It's a Graham-Bush plan and now jr is the burning Bush who will try and finish this while spending your reputation, money and children.
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John "Jengis" Kerry?????
It should be obvious from his books that Price can be quite glib
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