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07-25-2001, 06:19 PM
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By their fruits, you will know...
If by the fruit of their works, one can judge a God and his followers... I judge the Greeks as having the best fruits, with the Greek Gods winning the prize of True Gods.
The Greeks gave us... Ethics Politics and general social structure Schools Astronomy Geography Harmonics History Language Logic Mathematics medicine Physics Poetics Rhetoric Technology Christianity gave us... Guilt Promises of a better future Tolerance of existing circumstances Forgiveness of those that do us wrong More Guilt Corrupt Church and Religious Systems Tax free Churches Intolerance of Science and progress Dysfunctional Families More Guilt Beautiful Churches Book stores that sell bibles and other Christian toys Televangelists A general OK to do wrong because you can be forgiven Christian schools where the students are brainwashed The Jehovah witness knocking on your door at 7:00am every Saturday Constant wars between religious systems The Crusades General intolerance of homosexuals What other fruit can we see from the Christian/Jewish/Islam God? |
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07-26-2001, 05:34 PM
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Greek to me (too)! There is something most believers do not know about the passage in Matthew 7:17: Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. If Jesus did in fact say these words, he spoke them in Aramaic, a Middle Eastern language in which the word for "good" primarily means ripe and the word for "corrupt" or "evil" primarily means unripe. In all the Semitic languages, this interpretation makes a world of difference. If this Aramic interpretation ever became well-known and generally accepted, fundamentalist and evangelical apologists would be forced to come up with some arcane linguistic "trump card" to show how wrong this interpretation is. And so it goes.... |
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07-27-2001, 12:24 AM
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Great Religious Men like the following...
Suicidal Muslim Terrorists Hitler and his genocide activities David Koresh and his genocide activities Charles Manson and his genocide activities Jim Jones and his genocide activities |
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