Re: Christians and Santa Claus

From: Gordo Mondragon (ga_mondragon_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:22:41 GMT

In article <1em00ue0e5urm.dlg@icepick.org>,
 Iceman <1c3m4n@chi-mafia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 04:01:51 GMT, Gordo Mondragon wrote:
>
[....]

> > The problem is, if you can't read the original aramaic or hebrew or
> > greek you're reading an interpretation and many of those interpretations
> > are provably wrong. Also, Jesus didn't write anything down.
> >
> To some extent, yes, if you read the KJ version you'd need to be versed in
> the Kings English. and then you'd be real close.

The King James version contains enough translation errors that people
who quote from it run the risk of putting out a different message than
the original text had.

> The Bible promises the
> understanding to those that read and study it if they seek the truth.

The bible is a book. You mean "the men who wrote the bible promise...."
and that's just not enough for me. They wrote that they were
infallible. That was clever of them.

[...]

> You'd have to due a study on slavery to understand it.

Dude, there are lots and lots and lots of studies of slavery if you or
they were interested in some facts.

[...]

> In spite of all their good things they never had a
> problem with lying. Which is one of the things that is a "seven deadly
> sins" type of thing.

Christians lie all the time. One of the really bad things about this
country right now is the number of people in power or positions of
authority who say "trust me, I believe in Jesus" and then lie with
abandon. For example, Rush Limbaugh lied about his drug addiction and
his adultery. We were lied to about Iraq by people who call themselves
christians. These are all simple facts and not in dispute. The church
itself lies to people about what the bible says about homosexuality.
People in our government are publishing lies about AIDS. These are just
a few of the facts that lead me to say that there's no evidence to make
me think that just because someone calls themselves a christian that
they're more likely to be telling the truth. Just the opposite, in my
experience.

Gordo

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