tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post7957543039302752594..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Happy Easterambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-90617607192949460512008-03-24T00:47:00.000-06:002008-03-24T00:47:00.000-06:00vnjagvet—I would never call Christianity a f...vnjagvet—<BR/><BR/>I would never call Christianity a fraud just as I would never call any of the major religions in almost all of their varied incarnations frauds and there aren't all that many I'd call cults. I wouldn't even think it. People can, and obviously will, believe whatever they like and so long as they don't attempt by the threat or use of force to curtail my ability to do the same, I'm good. <BR/><BR/>I've been a deist for a very long time. It works for me.lonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13329414340481290010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-25832299638129285192008-03-23T23:54:00.000-06:002008-03-23T23:54:00.000-06:00Happy Easter Vnjagvet.I would suggest you read the...Happy Easter Vnjagvet.<BR/><BR/>I would suggest you read the link I provided to the article called "The Atheist Delusion". I think you might like itMeaninglessHotAirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11767916621253839341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-68304702474774188282008-03-23T22:45:00.000-06:002008-03-23T22:45:00.000-06:00Tom was a great patriot, Loner. Obviously, faith w...Tom was a great patriot, Loner. <BR/><BR/>Obviously, faith was not one of his gifts.<BR/><BR/>But it is pretty amazing that those who said they saw, heard and lived with that poor Nazerine Carpenter were able to convince so many throughout more than twenty centuries of His divine gifts.<BR/><BR/>CS Lewis had it right for me. <BR/><BR/>Either the story of Christ's life, death and resurrection is truly the Word of God, or it is the biggest fraud perpetrated on mankind.<BR/><BR/>There is not much room for a middle ground.vnjagvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15904498408683884983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-38197117447434455372008-03-23T22:17:00.000-06:002008-03-23T22:17:00.000-06:00Happy Easter.Today, I believe in the Davidson Wild...Happy Easter.<BR/><BR/>Today, I believe in the Davidson Wildcats (a 3 day belief), Oban (a 20 year belief) and I agree with our comrade in better blogosphere days, Dennis, that X should have been one of the biggest bands ever (a belief I'd forgotten about.) <BR/><BR/>This post didn't cause me to listen to any Bach—yet, but it did lead me to pull my <I>William Blake: The Complete Poems</I> from its place on the poetry shelf in the bookcase to my right. I enjoyed <I>The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</I>. Lots to think about there.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure there is some Bach on the CD shelf along the top of the contrivance from which I work on this computer. A <I>St. Matthew Passion</I> conducted by Klemperer should be there. Maybe later. <I>John Adams</I> is on right now.<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>But some, perhaps, will say: Are we to have no word of God — no revelation? I answer, Yes; there is a word of God; there is a revelation.<BR/><BR/>THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.<BR/><BR/>Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. The idea that God sent Jesus Christ to publish, as they say, the glad tidings to all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, is consistent only with the ignorance of those who knew nothing of the extent of the world, and who believed, as those world-saviours believed, and continued to believe for several centuries (and that in contradiction to the discoveries of philosophers and the experience of navigators), that the earth was flat like a trencher, and that man might walk to the end of it.</I><BR/><BR/>—Thomas Paine, <I>Age of Reason</I>lonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13329414340481290010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-41802589472865548972008-03-23T18:39:00.000-06:002008-03-23T18:39:00.000-06:00Dona nobis pacem at this exact moment. Good stuff...<I>Dona nobis pacem</I> at this exact moment. Good stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-10334836733802669712008-03-23T18:30:00.000-06:002008-03-23T18:30:00.000-06:00Happy Easter to you, vnjagvet, said Skookumchuk, w...Happy Easter to you, vnjagvet, said Skookumchuk, with the Bach B Minor Mass cranked and echoing through the house...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com