From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 16:44:49 MDT
Quite. And herein my brethren, lies the true (IHO) mission of Virus. To
disabuse the world of the notion that it's fate lies beyond the remit of
its own collective volition.
[Blunderov] *
*(Who in spite of his use of the word 'true', claims no affiliation with
'the Spouter of of Lies' ie Saul of Tarsus,** (be sure to lose no
opportunity to confound your Christian acquaintances with this not
inconsequential inconsistency in the whole edifice of so called
"Christianity") or, for that matter, a definitive (or even credible)
interpretation of the words of my brother Kharin.
** for the curious: Google = "Paauline Heresy" eg:
"For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men
arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them"
(Acts 20:29-30). Heresy, coming from the Greek verb meaning "to choose,"
connotes "a theological choice contrary to norm."
cue Rhinoceros...
Yes well, time to sign off now....
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com] On Behalf
Of Kharin
Sent: 08 August 2003 12:06 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: Re:Shifting Ideological Sands
"Most telling. It would seem that most (religious) Americans find it
impossible to accept that they might have given offence to God. "
While I suspect admission of offence to be generally difficult to
accept, it does seem to me that religions do tend to explain misfortune
in terms of retribution. As I recall, some American fundamentalists did
indeed react to September 11th by asserting that god had lifted his veil
of protection from America for its immorality and lack of faith. Not
really any different from explaining the plague as a divine visitation,
or to any of the examples Frazier furnished in The Golden Bough. For
their part, the mullahs explain the decline of Islamic society as being
attributable to a failure to adhere properly to the Koran and to the
introduction of Western immorality.
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