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To: muir_redwoods

fool

look to the oldest history book known to christians and learn something. look to the talmud as well.


28 posted on 11/09/2006 8:33:26 PM PST by himno hero
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To: himno hero
"fool

look to the oldest history book known to christians and learn something. look to the talmud as well."

I have. In part, I seem to recall an imprecation against calling one's brother a fool.

What I read is no different from all the other ancient texts left behind by people who tried to make some sense of their world but couldn't do more than approximate it. I can ignore the sad history of warfare, wiping out entire peoples and the petty rules about wearing garments of two different threads. It isn't important that this supposedly inerrant book calls bats, birds, states that the sun revolves around the earth or contains any of the other 2500 errors of fact it contains.

What matters is that it is just a book and that is all. To try to contain or circumscribe all that there is to what one can find within it is to voluntarily limit ones view to a very narrow degree.

But, to each his own.

39 posted on 11/10/2006 2:04:00 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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