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R.Wreck
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USA
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Posted - 01/27/2007 :  10:21:18  Show Profile Send R.Wreck a Private Message
How to selectively read the bible


The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/27/2007 :  16:18:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
That's rich! I thought the talking snake thing was metaphorical, but maybe I should have asked Filthy. He'd be aware of any metaphorical or poetic behavior in herps, I'm sure.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Starman
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Sweden
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Posted - 01/27/2007 :  22:54:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message
Good one!

The next time the JWs show up at my door, I was thinking about first demanding their coats and then taking them for a hike.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/index.html

"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
-- Terry Jones
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 01/28/2007 :  02:01:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
That pig over the cliff thing is really Mark 12-17, not 13,50.

From the Skeptic's Annotated Bible
quote:
5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

"And were choked in the sea"
Jesus sends the devils into 2000 pigs, causing them to jump off a cliff and be drowned in the sea. When the people hear about it, they beg Jesus to leave.

The Miracle of the Gaderene Swine
(Briton Riviere, 1883)
Great cartoon.
Edited by - beskeptigal on 01/28/2007 02:01:44
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 01/28/2007 :  03:41:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Starman

Good one!

The next time the JWs show up at my door, I was thinking about first demanding their coats and then taking them for a hike.

http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/index.html



Thanks Starman!
I haven't checked in on The Brick Testament lately...
Everyone should pay a visit! Start off with Love and Forgiveness.

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