Re: Math is a SIN ! ! ! !
From: Phil Hobbs (pcdh_at_SpamMeSenseless.us.ibm.com)
Date: 11/19/04
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:54:40 -0500
Ron Larham wrote:
>"Hans-Marc Olsen" <mallet_riveter@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message
>news:e1cc8b8.0411171741.456e8a1a@posting.google.com...
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>>Jesus Christ does not want you to waste your time with silly numbers
>>or you won't go to heaven !
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>You are too late:
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>...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The
>danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the
>devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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>-St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram
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>RonL
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>"Ignorance is the most delightful of the sciences ..."
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You obviously believe your tag line very deeply.
Augustine was talking about astrologers and numerologists, not
Euclid--the mathematics involved was calculating the position of the 365
heavens of the god Abraxas. (Naturally, if there are any Gnostics on
this group, I apologize deeply.) If you'd actually read it, you'd
probably agree with him: See
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/anf01/cache/anf01.txt for Irenaeus's take
on it, and
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF1-02/npnf1-02-11.htm#P874_449444 for
Augustine's.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
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