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- From: diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Inconsistency in the bible
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.083055.9221@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 08:30:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.131344.6748@linus.mitre.org>
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- Lines: 21
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- m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug18.051516.26741@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
- : I've read your reference. Perhaps you are confused: explaining why the sky
- : is blue does not make it change colors. Nor does addressing the authorship
- : eliminate the errors.
-
- No, with respect I think you must be confused. What I am saying is what
- you see as errors are acknowledged to be errors by the mainstream
- church.
-
- As a quasi-christian myself I am deeply embarrassed to see the mindless
- antics of fundies, they are by and large mindless, sickened bigots with
- overwhelming personality disorders, and unpleasant behaviour traits (not
- the least of which is lobbying the governments of democracies to
- persecute minorities).
-
- So at the risk of restating the obvious: "I KNOW THERE ARE ERRORS IN THE
- BIBLE! I KNOW THAT IT WAS WRITTEN BY PEOPLE! MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS OF
- ALL DENOMINATIONS ACCEPT THIS TO BE THE TRUTH!"
-
- Is that clear enough?
-