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Re: It's scarier if he actually believes his own nonsense.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 8 Apr 2003 05:11:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richie Dulin writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > <snip>
> > > > Many do want that "God Bless America", but in Britain some like
> > > > to think that God didn't just bless the place, he walked upon their very
> > > > shores
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Isn't this true also of a fairly large group of North Americans?
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> >
> > And did those feet in ancient time
> > Walk upon England's mountains green?
> > And was the holy Lamb of God
> > On England's pleasant pastures seen?
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> These are questions, not statements - and the words to a hymn, not the
> declarations of a faith!
No! Really? And you think I would have known that with those really
obvious question marks at the ends of the lines! ;-)
There were those in Britain that *wanted* to believe that (whether they
actually believed it I couldn't say). I only quote the hymn by William
Blake as an example of the cult of Christ waltzing about England.
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> >
> > Not to that extent. :-)
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> I don't know: Didn't Jesus visit people in the North America after his
> resurrection, and organise a church there?
Hey! Are you insinuating otherwise? And besides, there's money in
miracles, not just loopy pride about a non-miracle.
-->Bruce<--
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