Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:30:10 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011020212438.048ec760@localhost> In-Reply-To: <m6y9m6i23i.9m6@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011020004426.A45044@moondog.org> <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> <20011019154414.A43110@moondog.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011019203955.0464d920@localhost> <20011020004426.A45044@moondog.org>
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At 12:43 PM 10/20/2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >The rest, who believe that the Bible's words of Jesus are either >authentic or divinely inspired and reliable, have have a couple of >problems regarding extra-biblical beliefs. Interestingly, many Christians have "extra-biblical" beliefs that they DO NOT KNOW are extra-biblical, even though they clearly sprung from the fertile imaginations of much later authors. For example, many treat elements from the fanciful accounts of Dante and Milton as "gospel" -- to the extent that, when asked, they will claim that fanciful assertions from these almost modern writers' works are part of the Bible and hence the "word of God." >Each of these things has a counter-argument, of course, but surely >Christianity has many definitions, and people shouldn't casually speak >as if it has only one. Same for "free software" - that other religion. Agreed. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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