Subj : EUROPE
To   : Todd Henson
From : Joseph Voigt
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 07:01 am

Thursday October 26 2000 02:05, TODD HENSON wrote to FRANK MASINGILL:

 >>        That which the word "God" symbolizes NEVER HAD, HAS NOT NOW,
 >> AND NEVER WILL HAVE a history.  Thank God!

 TH> He has a "history" as far as His dealings with our linear timeline. So
 TH> a "history" of God is of course a very contetxual phrase.

No it isn't.  There are literally thousands of gods in hundreds of myths, your 
bible included.  There is no more a "history" of god than there is a "history" 
of Zeus, your silly linear timeline not withstanding.

 >>        Of course, I am not a dummy so I understand that the title
 >> of a book is not always chosen by an author.  Furthermore, one of

 TH> I think the obvious meaning is the "history" of God as far as man has
 TH> chronologically experienced it.

Your "history" of god is nothing more than chronologically experiencing the 
reading of ancient books slapped together again and again over a couple 
thousand plus years.  No gods have been shown to have ever emanated from any of 
those books... hence no history of your god in any sense at all. Same is true 
of Zeus and Isis, BTW.

 >> the most incisive books Nicolas Berdiaev ever wrote has the title of
 >> _The Meaning of History_ and his purpose in the book was to nail
 >> down the truth that History HAS NO meaning OF it.  There CAN be
 >> meaning IN it.

 TH> Maybe the meaning of history is the same as WHY God made the universe
 TH> in the first place.

WHELP!  Please present irrefutable, corroborative, and falsifiable evidence 
that your god even exists -before- making a claim about why he made something.  
As it is, your claim is empty.

 TH> But as I said, perhaps the meaning of history is answered by finding
 TH> out why God made the universe,

Again, please support your premise.  Until you can show that your god exists, 
you cannot make a claim about WHY he did anything.

.... God said to Moses, "Pull my finger."  And the Red Sea parted.
--- FastEcho 1.46 (reg)
 * Origin: The Danse - Where Norse Gods Ponder Their Navels (1:387/638)

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