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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:34:14 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: First I'll say this... this thread is making me homesick!!!! (...) Man, they'd just just have to see my music collection to freak out about me. ^_^; Oh well. (it's that naughty (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... (...) Maybe they thought that life was so terrible that death was better than the hell that was their life. For some people nowhere is a better place. Not that I think they were non-religious, I just don't think that their statement (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Plagues, I guess. I think that's a great way to teach religious things in school. If you want to believe that a higher power caused them, knowing how the power did it should only reinforce your belief in the power (by saying that not only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The question of whether God exists or not for me is clear cut. He does. This whole Creationist v Evolutionist argument has pointed towards a Great Creator of the Universe, and that is God. Man certainly had nothing to do with the original (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) An extreme example of this would be walking into a government building and seeing a swastika mounted on the wall. Now, I don't know about you, but I would very quickly get the impression that which ever government agency was housed in said (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's a great question! But more than that, what I wanna know is whether God (THE God): (a) admits that other deities exist and disallows their worship, or (b) disavows the existance of other deities, or (c) whether His answer to that would (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, but what about whether or not this 'deity', aka God, exists? -Shiri (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What it means is that whatever is primary in our lives is our god. For some people it is money, or power, property, sex, popularity, image, relationships, ........., even LEGO. It could be a combination of any of these things or a different (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Err, just to make myself clear - I don't mind teaching the bible, as long as it is taught as a foundation to our country (Israel) and not as a practice we should all believe in. I also believe that it should not be enforced after grade school (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Or me either. You Americans don't know how lucky you are to at least have SOME degree of separation between the two. In Israel the two are totally mixed, wisted and intertwined to a horrible and utterly disgusting mess. The orthodox Jews have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ Urrp, I mean the "DOJ vs. MS" case! --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmm, I never thought about this one too much before the MS vs. DOJ case, but does this mean that there are in fact other gods besides "God" and that He desires to cultivate and maintain a monopoly in His target market? --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) this, I (...) Although many would argue that I am not a Christian (including myself, though I acknowledge that I am a product of a Christian culture), but that may not have been what you were saying. I do (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Bill Farkas wrote in message ... (...) in (...) similar (...) endorsing or (...) that (...) not (...) merely (...) which is (...) Ah, but the Ten Commandments are MORE than an example of the basic principles, here they are for reference: 1 - Thou (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have to agree with James Brown's guess. I've heard the same story, except that the two writers were L. Ron Hubbard and Frank Herbert. Herbert, of course, wrote _Dune_, the SF classic with generous helpings of Islam. When you have multiple (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, BYU is a private school. But like any big school they get all kinds of financial kickbacks from the state and the city of Provo, as well as outright funding. So while they don't have the force of law behind them, they do have the force (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahhh, yes, you referenced pilgrims and after reading that section I forgot and thought you said Puritans. My mistake. (...) far (...) categorize (...) It cuts both ways - they were religions that decided they needed to compete and have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow, I think this is my first post to .debate... <snipped a bunch of stuff> (...) Well said. :) I've enjoyed reading your responses; keep up the good work. Joel (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I agree and have said nothing to the contrary. (...) Very true, but not all "pilgrims" were puritans. (...) It was far more than that, and the greek bible had little to do with Greek Orthodoxy at this point in time. The ante-nicene and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(I hope this formats OK when I submit it) Toto, I think we're in Kansas... (...) I've read most of the supposedly "scientific" Creationist literature, and nowhere is the necessary connection between belief in a director or architect ("theistic (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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