it is [...] as incompatible with known _facts_ about reality as is
the Egyptian book of the dead, or any other tome of "knowledge"
put together by benighted prehistoric savages.
This is what I do not understand:
A few thousand years ago, we had a rash of holy books. No doubt the
oral traditio
On 9/3/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What balls.
...is this I say, Chalapathi?
Sorry, it's amazing how stupid taglines stay in one's memory after all
these years.
Ram
On Sat September 2 2006 2:54 pm, Divya Sampath wrote:
> Domitian decreed castration a
> capital offence
Related to this, there is a footnote in a famous textbook of Surgery (by
Bailey and Love) that tells of a man who had a type of cyst on one testicle
called a spermatocele. Such a cyst can fe
On 03-Sep-06, at 3:58 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
"But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a
matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from
God." (NAS, 2nd Peter 1:20-21)
I do
Ashish Gulhati wrote:
Of-course, the Bible is _meant_ to be interpreted literally, being
the word of "God".
It says so in the Bible itself:
"But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a
matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human
"Abhijit Menon-Sen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen
Wow. Self-castration was a capital crime under Roman law?
For reasons political, economic, moral, and religious (not necessarily in
that order). The moral/religious reasons originated with barring Roman
citi
what you say would be true if religion
by itself were grounded on logical imperativeswhich
is definitely not the case. literal
interpretations also dont make sense because of the fact that
every bible published since the original
aramaic/ancient greek version is an interpretation /
transla
On 01-Sep-06, at 10:38 AM, ashok wrote:
some years back there was a certain archbishop of a rather extreme
church in nairobi, who interpreted,
mathew 19:12 literally
Of-course, the Bible is _meant_ to be interpreted literally, being
the word of "God".
It says so in the Bible itself:
"Bu
At 2006-09-01 16:20:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen
Wow. Self-castration was a capital crime under Roman law?
-- ams
He's not the first bright soul to whom this idea occured - Origen of
Ceasaria was influenced by the very same passage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen
ashok wrote:
>
> some years back there was a certain archbishop of a rather extreme
> church in nairobi, who interpreted,
> mathew 19:12 liter
some years back there was a certain
archbishop of a rather extreme church in nairobi, who interpreted,
mathew 19:12 literally ('..some are
eunuchs because they were born that way, others were made by by men,
yet others to renounce marriage becuase
of the kingdom of heaven. they who can must accep
On 9/1/06, Srini RamaKrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water
Nothing to see here. Move along. Just Natural Selection
at work :-)
-- Vinayak
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I hope he got admission through the Pearly gates.
We should take the warning labels off everything and just let the stupid
people remove themselves from the gene pool. ;)
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I hope he got admission through the Pearly gates.
Cheeni
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