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Author Topic:   Y-H-W-H is God; besides him there is nothing.
Coyote
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Message 10 of 47 (720622)
02-25-2014 1:07 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by New Cat's Eye
02-25-2014 12:45 PM


Nonsense!
If the table stops existing after everyone leaves the room, the how do you explain that, when we come back in 10 years, the table is covered in dust?
Pixies, of course!
Seriously, it is amazing the nonsense folks will believe based on religion.
Heinlein had it right:
quote:
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1

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Coyote
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Message 15 of 47 (720650)
02-25-2014 11:09 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by NoNukes
02-25-2014 10:53 PM


Re: translation problems? No. That's not the problem.
How about a bone for the rest of us to gnaw on?
This should be in a forum devoted to literary criticism.
I did a lot of that when I was an English major.
As with this thread, it is all opinion based on opinion based on somebody's writing.
Relationship to reality? None.
But at least Hamlet was better written and more interesting.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1

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