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That 'purpose' is not uniquely available to me, it is visible right out in
the open all of the time for all to see. Have I described anything that you
cannot see for yourself, if you can 'see'?
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From: "Hank Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: [pnews-views] Re: [pnews-news] Islam Means Death to Infidels
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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
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> 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
> >
> >
> > On 4/7/06, Charles W. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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