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To: DogBarkTree
Im with you there, brother. I just cant rally behind the ugly red guy with horns as being the center of evil.

Since the original article mentioned C.S. Lewis, here's a quote from Screwtape Letters which you might find amusing...

If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you.

Cheers!

7 posted on 10/30/2005 4:23:44 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

"...suggest to him a picture of something in red tights...."

Much of our modern notions (mis-conceptions?) of hell come from Dante's Inferno.

While I'd love for people to get past their notions of a man w/ horns, I'd hate to give up the idea that there isn't a Ninth Circle of Hell, which features ice and icy waters into which sinners are cast for eternity. Here in Michigan, we call that January.....


9 posted on 10/30/2005 4:31:06 PM PST by TWohlford
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To: grey_whiskers

That is pretty amazing. Thanks. The older I get the better I know what are dangers, what are threats, and what is just bs. Lately there's seems to be a whole lot of all 3. I agree with the main point here that we are on the cusp of a cultural war of some sort.


11 posted on 10/30/2005 4:36:25 PM PST by DogBarkTree
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