Well, it doesn't seem like the faith/phaith distinction struck home like one would have hoped. Let's see what happens if I put it this way:
On the x-axis is true/false.
On the y-axis is believe/don't believe.
You're tracing your little pointer all up and down the x-axis shouting "See! Look at that, shouldn't you change your position!" Meanwhile SnowLeopard sits on the y-axis where, from that point of view, all you're doing is wiggling nerviously, and proclaims, "Why should I be moved? You haven't gone anywhere at all?"
And still, neither one of you has a clue what the other is talking about.
-Prof. Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: TheHermit <carlw@hermit.net>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 4:14 PM
Subject: 2nd Try under a new identity - please ignore if you have received
it already - virus: Faith vs Religion
>SnowLeopard
>
>I have stayed relatively quiet while you preached, due to lack of time and
>inclination, together with a firm belief that we should all be free to
>choose our own vices. That your vice happenes to be a blind devotion to a
>particularly nasty god did not really offend me until you began attempting
>to propagate your favorite lies about it on this list. Before you
continuing
>doing so, please consider a few minor points.
>
>In the following I have tried not to quote versus from the bible, only
>references, that way you can look them up for yourself (in context and your
>favorite translation) and hopefully nobody will become unhappy and
certainly
>they (who know who they are) will have no grounds to accuse me of quoting
>out of context.
>
>Most available evidence indicates that "Jesus Christ" did not exist. There
>is no believable contemporary support for the idea of this mythical
>creature. He seems to be a composite of a number of earlier
>resurrection/redeemer gods smeared over the persona of a rabid
>fundamentalist zealot sometime during the mid first century. The New
>Testament was only glued together out of documents dated after 60 CE (After
>73CE for the Gospels) and arbitrary decisions were made as to what should
be
>included and what should be edited out between 325CE and, some would argue,
>till as late as 550 C.E. For a reasonably competent view of this, I
strongly
>recommend that you read "James The Brother of Jesus" by Robert Eisenman.
Let
>me quote from a review of this book from
>http://www-ctp.mit.edu/~alford/james.html
>
[snip]