Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Todd Henson
From : John Wilson
Date : Wed Nov 01 2000 09:42 pm

-=> Joseph Voigt wrote to Todd Henson <=-


 >>  I love the bible. I read it almost every day. It is a part of my
 >> life and  a part of my society, culture, citizenship. I hate with a
 >> ferver  matching Joe's, those who use a naieve faith as a means for
 >> gaining  wealth/power/political influence. Jimmy Swaggart still
 >> wears  that $5000 watch, y'know?

 TH> Hate? That's a pretty strong word. It's not healthy.

 As you no doubt are aware, sometimes being luke-warm about some things
 will cause the Divine to vomit...(cf. (of course) Revelation...) :-)

 The victimization of innocent persons because they are (in whatever way
 you wish to define the word:) spiritual is, I think just cause for my
 reasoned hate. :-)

 Even Jesus got pissed off at the money-changers....:-)

 Healthy, my hate :-)

 TH> But again, what does Jimmy Swaggert have to do with the universe?

 Just pointing to an icon of hypocracy.


 >>  To disagree with, or even to be amused by, is not
 >>  I think to "spew hate".

 TH> The person in question goes far beyond mere disagreement.

 I admit his amusment sometimes cannot be distinguised from scorn...
 (I hereby admit, lest others become outraged by my modesty and force me by
 some legal means do do so...that I am nicer, doubtless, than Joe. But then
 I am nicer than most *everybody*.) Joe, I think, rightly attacks with reason
 that which really cannot be *reasonably* be defended. (I spent more than a
 year, spending most of my serious reading time on a great attempt:
 Thomas Acquinas' Summa Theologica. What a book! Still, Christiannity
 insofar as it defends itself *logically*, will fail. The Gnostic were
 wiped out, but the Pistics remained. (Gnostics:"Men of Knowledge",
 Pistics:"Men of Faith")

 (Knowledge of Gnostic Theology(s) has increased radically
 since the discovery of 60 texts in 1946...


.... and for my next trick I will saw reality in half.

--- Maximus 3.01
 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715)

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