***There was an altar on the wall of the restaurant . . .
Very, very, very, VERY much like the Buddhist altars in most Restaurants in Taipei.***
Long before the Jews wrote the OT, various other religions wrote their scripture in books or scrolls of various kinds. Therefore the practice of writing scripture and disseminating it is pagan, right?
Lost in the mists of time, the ancients developed the idea of priests or shamans that were schooled in their religions and taught the people about it. Therefore anyone learned in religion is pagan, right?
Thousands of years of civilization have seen the people of a religion give money to it. Therefore the idea of tithing is pagan, right?
***I have no idea what your James Joyce comment means.***
Maybe if you got out more. I believe that you claim that you are in some version of academe; I find it difficult to believe that an educated man is unaware of the contributions of James Joyce to the literary genre.
***And, believe me, or not, I know Bibliolatry from very close up personally and with other loved ones.***
I have doubt about it. The question is why you would defend it by defining it otherwise.
***I make no sense out of the “What insurance company do they use?” question.***
Again, an educated man ought to know the difference between the word ‘insure’ and the word ‘ensure’.
**I like to at least pretend that anything close to dialogue is likely not in vain.***
One of the tools of the great deceiver is despair.
You sound convinced that the above analogy has some applicable validity above a microgram's worth???? Fascinating!
Lost in the mists of time, the ancients developed the idea of priests or shamans that were schooled in their religions and taught the people about it. Therefore anyone learned in religion is pagan, right?
You sound convinced that the above analogy has some applicable validity above a microgram's worth???? Fascinating!
Thousands of years of civilization have seen the people of a religion give money to it. Therefore the idea of tithing is pagan, right?
You sound convinced that the above analogy has some applicable validity above a microgram's worth???? Fascinating!
***I have no idea what your James Joyce comment means.***
Maybe if you got out more. I believe that you claim that you are in some version of academe; I find it difficult to believe that an educated man is unaware of the contributions of James Joyce to the literary genre.
Of course I'm familiar with Joyce's work. Doesn't mean I mind read your meaning and implications from such a single sentence. I'm sorry, your loftiness, I just haven't been able to grasp your crypticness. 'Tis a common failing of mine. And, often when I read many things . . . other folks come up with one or two obvious meanings and I come up with half a dozen or more and struggle to discern the right one. Genius IQ's are not all they are cracked up to be. So sorry.
***And, believe me, or not, I know Bibliolatry from very close up personally and with other loved ones.***
I have doubt about it. The question is why you would defend it by defining it otherwise.
Oh, dear me. Didn't realize I was so unclear. I didn't realize that bright folks would remotely imagine that I was defending BIBLIOLATRY! I didn't realize the words I used were that difficult. Perhaps I'll eventually figure out a strategy for amending my ways. I guess the only thing I can recommend in between time is a good dictionary.
***I make no sense out of the “What insurance company do they use?” question.***
Again, an educated man ought to know the difference between the word ‘insure’ and the word ‘ensure’.
OH, Dear, dear, dear me. My chronic lifetime spelling problem strikes again. Making it a higher priority has never been a very successful thing with me. What a pity. BTW, are you implying that I'm lying about my education?
**I like to at least pretend that anything close to dialogue is likely not in vain.***
One of the tools of the great deceiver is despair.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, another famously cryptic, terse, ambiguous, obscure, obtuse comment.
Perhaps you are fantasizing that I'm in despair because I'm not awash in Maryolatry and magicsterium worship?
LOL! GTTM! ROTFLOL!