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Let us not make fun of anyone who claims to be the voice of God.
Remember, the last person to do that was Muhammad and look at all the
trouble he caused and you don't want that hanging over your head, do you?
Charles must speak to God because he knows God's purpose. Anyone who
doesn't have a direct line to the old man (or is he a she?) can't possible
know what he has in mind for us. And before anyone believes any of this,
let me say I may be a week late but I can still say April FOOLS.
Of course, if you ask me, there is no purpose and there is damn sure no
intelligent design.
Hank
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Sarah Blum wrote:
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> You are off your meds. They certainly were not that sophisticated. You can
> make analogies with anything but that does not make it true nor does it make
> it a conspiracy as you seem to think it is. Those who choose to look in dark
> corners for inexplicable mysteries cloak your own confusion in
> conspiracies. Of course the Church was totalitarian and so were all the
> other autocrats and monarchs and dictators who have ruled since they
> acquired power. The only think morphed here is your common sense. Try to get
> it back. And stop listening to those voices in your head. You are not God
> and God is not listening.
> Neither is the Church.... or the protestants who advanced the work ethic.
>
> Sarah
>
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> On 4/7/06, Charles W. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>
>> Christianity ruled the western world under it's iron bootheel of
>> 'divine rights' totalitarianism where 93% of the population were
>> slaves, and no one was ever set free until they got guns and blew away
>> a few hundred thousands of 'aristocrats' and clergymen. The ban on
>> personal wealth is most certainly a slave control scam. The "you will
>> get yours after you die" is most certainly a slave control scam. The
>> christian work ethic which says "work unto death for the wealth of
>> someone else" is most certainly a slave control scam. Christianity has
>> morphed from 'slave control' mode of sixty years ago into the "make
>> more slaves" mode it is in today because of the new freedoms the
>> quasi-slaves of the sharecropping age acquired a measure of economic
>> freedom. It's purpose was not contrived, it was simply an observation
>> of what it did after it was created. However, this brings forth the
>> assumption that that was what it was created to do.
>>
>> I have also observed that it stands opposed to god's purpose for
>> creating the human race by opposing that purpose for which the human
>> race fulfills, the creation of new knowledge. The human race has only
>> one unique characteristic, and that is that it creates new knowledge,
>> so if it exists as a result of intelligent design, that has to be what
>> it was designed for, for that is all that it does. All else it does is
>> but a byproduct of the creation of new knowledge. Any other approach
>> suggest that god is some kind of stumblebum failure. If you assume
>> that god is a success (his most important attribute) they you have to
>> look at the human race and what it does and say that is what god
>> intended it to do. There are no other choices. But christian
>> conservatism means "stop the progress".
>>
>> Whose side should I be on, god's or christianity's???? Progress cannot
>> be created without human freedom and choice, but christianity does not
>> allow freedom and choice.
>>
>> I go with god. I am the voice of god/////
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