Subj : Re: The universe
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Thu Nov 02 2000 07:14 pm

> SGID: 1:153/7715.0 3a016f36
> -=> 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 :-)


That's a pretty shoddy (not to mentioned wholly invalid) way to justify the
very thing that he 
preached against.


>  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


Not necessarily


>  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...


So?
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