Posted on 10/12/2007 5:00:39 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
Way to be mad about things that happened 700 years ago.
LOL
There was an article posted earlier that claimed the new book says that’s exactly what didn’t happen.
I’m confused. :p
Let me see if I get this. You think the French should have made English the official language back in the 1300s? The English were still speaking French at court in those days.
You need to brush up on your history. But I have a sneaking suspicion you live in Dan Brown’s attic.
I have a suspicion you do not have a sense of humor.
Can you have a New International Version or a King James if you prefer when you're in a Catholic High School? That's what I mean. There are some significant differences between the translations of the Bible that the RCC uses and those used by everyone else, most notably in the Ten Commandments. And, no, I'm not telling you what the differences are. Go check it out for yourself so you can't claim that I or my sources are biased.
I agree. Yet it had been the policy of the RCC to discourage personal possession of Bibles and it had been and is policy to discourage possession of translations of the Bible that do not concur with Doctrine.
And you are a .... Christian?
Most of your comments are so generalized and spoken from such and encapsulated perspective (i.e., bias) that you ridicule your own argument. Philosophy and the study of history is supposed to be a bit more scientific (i.e., objective and pre-prejudice) than what you’ve offered.
To paint several millennia of history and faith and billions of people with the broad-brush condemnation of basing their beliefs on half-truths, is the commentary of a simpleton, not an educated, objective, reason-based thinker.
Your attempt to insult “all Christians” by assuming that my comment was part of Christian theology is further proof of the correctness of my insult to you, which was a riposte to your general insults.
I said, “have a nice life” to indicate that I really don’t care to have a dialog with you. To reason with bigotry is pointless until the bigot overcomes himself. Again, this is not written as a Christian to a... (what, non-Christian? Anti-Christian? Agnostic? Atheist? it doesn’t matter, really, for all bigotry has either insecurity, fear, or hatred at its core, all of which are blinding intellectually), but as a student of formal logic and philosophy whose original comment was on the nefarious nature of conspiracy theorists who try to deceive people using half-truths, as opposed to outright falsehoods, which are far easier to classify. To equate that with inaccuracies that may be found in some religions and then to disparage all religion and those who believe, is the worst type of equivocation, not to mention, fallacious. As I said, the motive is the key, and whether an error is intentional or accidental.
Nice try.
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