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Newton Joseph · 07-09-2004, 06:41 PM

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As soon as the word religion is mentioned Christians, Muslim and Jews go into a hypnotic trance that leaves them to reject all reason and logic . In rereading THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine, he uses his logic to dispel the age-old concept of revelation. He says" But for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, and a second to a third, a third to a forth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the firs person only, and hearsay to every other person, and consequently, they are not obliged to believe it"

07-09-2004, 06:41 PM	#1
Newton Joseph Banned Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 496	Hearsay HEARSAY By New10. x As soon as the word religion is mentioned Christians, Muslim and Jews go into a hypnotic trance that leaves them to reject all reason and logic . In rereading THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine, he uses his logic to dispel the age-old concept of revelation. He says" But for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, and a second to a third, a third to a forth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the firs person only, and hearsay to every other person, and consequently, they are not obliged to believe it"

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