From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 20 8:41:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A321F37B401 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 08:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from optusnet.com.au (golax7-234.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.181.234]) by mail015.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9KFe2l06089; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:40:03 +1000 Message-ID: <3BD19B9D.C290DEE3@optusnet.com.au> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:43:25 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) References: <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <20010925001027.A750@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011003210717.0442cb20@localhost> <20011004132949.D16297@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20011019203955.0464d920@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > > Many religious sects and splinter groups, throughout time, have > adopted popular "holy" books but picked and chosen which parts > to accept as binding upon them. A good recent example of an > unconventional Christian sect is the Worldwide Church of God, > whose founder, radio preacher Edwin Armstrong, believed that > many injunctions in the Biblical "Old Testament" should be > honored. The group celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles, but > not Christmas, which they believed -- probably correctly -- > to be an adaptation of pagan winter solstice rituals rather > than the actual anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The bible, as we have it today, is a selection made by the early Roman church and later revisions. Many texts didn't make the cut, now known as apocryphal or non-cannonical texts. Even modern catholic and protestant bibles are different. IanP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message