Msg#: 1887                         Date: 03-28-95  23:14
  From: Sean Mccullough
    To: Alan Kern
  Subj: Bible Inerrancy.

> I'm a former drug abuser, which also probably would have been
> forbidden in the OT temple.

"Former" my ASS. You are still a NON-reformed drug addict. You 
traffick in a drug -- Jesus worship -- that is more mind bending 
than LSD, more addictive than tobacco raised to the power of 
crack cocaine, and generally is as much more vile, harmful, and 
dangerous than heroin, than heroin is compared to decaffeinated 
coffee deliberately brewed over-weak.

 > The Apostle Paul formerly persecuted/killed Christians, and

And then came down with that unfortunate nervous breakdown on 
the road between Jerusalem and Damascus.

A good rodeo doctor, experienced in injuries inflicted by 
equines, would have stood old Saul in far better stead than a 
bunch of deity-afflicted idiots!!

 > AK> "There are no great pagans".

 >  GT> Not to put TOO fine a point on it, how about Alexander??  Socrates??
 >  GT> Darius?? Hamurabi?  Julius Caesar? Ptolemy?
 >  GT> Archimedes?  Buddha?  Confucius? Nephertiti?  Me?

ESPECIALLY Gwenny Herself. She is the greatest Pagan who ever lived!!

 >  GT> Your silly little religion is only two millenia
 >  GT> old.  It has only been in total power of the
 >  GT> Western world for half that time.  It has never
 >  GT> controlled Asia.  The world runs just fine without
 >  GT> the intervention of you fanatics.

She's telling it like it is, Alan.

 > Oh yah, Buddha was agreat man. What has this fat demon ever done
 > for anyone but mislead millions of people to destruction.

(1) Buddha is NO demon. In fact, the term "Buddha" simply means "Enlightened
    One", and applies to NO specific human. When it IS so used, it refers to
    the Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni (550 BCE -- 480 BCE), who
    accomplished a great deal more, with more of humanity, than that Jewish
    bumpkin with grandeur delusions ever has or EVER WILL.

(2) Buddhism is a perfect example of a HUMANE religion. It has NEVER been
    proselytized by violence. It teaches that all human beings, regardless of
    sex, age, or condition, are to be treated with lovingkindness and respect.
    It is NOT dependent on God[s] of ANY KIND, but places ALL responsibility
    for achievement of enlightenment and betterment of the world where it
    rightly BELONGS: on the shoulders of HUMAN INDIVIDUALS, in whose hands
    lies the SOLE power to make it happen.

So much for your castigation of your inherent betters.
Maybe you ought to stop cussing at them and start learning
FROM them.

 > Confucius, yup, really helpful guy. Name one contribution he's
 > made to humanity.

Confucius taught such socially stabilizing things as
respect for authority, veneration of elders, peace with
equals, and defense of children and inferiors -- just a FEW
examples of contributions he made to humanity.

 > Socrates I believe killed himself, great role model for kids.

Socrates was EXECUTED for making the youth of his time
THINK about what they believed in and who they served, and
WHY they served them. He did NOT drink the hemlock of his
own accord, but was forced to by the element among Greeks
which would provide the Christers of a future day and age.

Damn straight he's a great role model for kids. My
elementary school was PROUD to teach children about him,
and I am PROUD to teach children I encounter about him
today.

 > None of the others contributed anything either.

Yeah, right. They ALL contributed things far greater than
the Bible's writers could IMAGINE, much less contribute
themselves. All the Bible ever gave us was an ancient
tribal superstition which taught woman-hatred, racism,
bigotry, homophobia, psychosis, and violence -- all in the
name of a thunder-demon who NEVER existed and never will
exist.

 > I repeat, there are no great pagans.

Fuck you, ignorant bigot. There are far more great Pagans
than there will EVER be great believers in the non-existent
Jesus God.

                               slack -- s.