Re: ot:In memory of S.T. Gould

Sean wrote:
On 2006-08-01 20:12:14 -0700, Kevin Gowen <kgowen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:


This may surprise you, but all presidents in recent memory have been
church goers. What offends your crowd is that when this president
expresses belief in God, they know he is telling the truth.

You don't know what my "crowd" is.

Ok. I had no idea that you were an American patriot.

P.S. Nice flag patch on backpack. Tell me about how it gets you freebies when you travel.

Of course it's natural, when so many people believe mumbo-jumbo, that folks who want to get elected have to at least pretend to believe it.

Yes, that would be only natural. Similarly, your pols have to pretend that Canada isn't a made-in-Taiwan version of the US.

Although I do not believe in the Rapture, I don't see what is scary
about that belief. I have heard rather stupid people claim that the
president and/or other politicians take certain actions in order to
hasten the Rapture. I am sure you are not one of them, though. At any
rate, from your point of view, the Rapture should delight, since that
would mean all Christians evaporated from the face of the earth. I
should expect you to be awaiting the Rapture with baited breath.

Bated breath, I imagine you mean. I don't want trout leaping into my mouth. At any rate, you leap to an incorrect conclusion. I would like to see religious people smarten up, but many of my family and friends are religious and I wouldn't like to see them evaporate. Note that I do not think Christians have a monopoly on silly beliefs.

I don't guess someone who rants about "the Apocaplypse" [sic] should go on spelling flames.

I hasten to add that there is no such event as "the Apocaplypse" [sic].
An apocalypse is a revelation, not an event. Most informed readers of
the Bible know that John of Patmos was writing about the events of his
century. Everything in the Bible has already happened.

It has? Well, I'm glad that's all done with then.

Yes, it has.

Chance's bemusement is reasonable.

I don't think that it is. The fact that a majority of Americans believe
in a creator God does not mean than those same Americans must believe in
a young Earth based on a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation
account and a calculation of the ages of the patriarchs.

Is Chance a frog? I can't remember.

Would Jesus use snide ethnic slurs? What's the point of being a Christian if you're still meanspirited and nasty? Is all that love stuff apocryphal?

I didn't realize that being French was an ethnicity. Would you care to be responsive?

- Kevin

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