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   On Sat, 09 May 2015 08:32:17 -0500, Mitchell Holman  wrote:   
   .   
   >mur wrote in news:4oqqka1r335te65ih353qu2h6ssiorod5a@4ax.com:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:18:05 -0400, "Tim"  wrote:   
   >> .   
   >>>"mur" wrote in message   
   >>>news:5is2kapvhqdpvus3kv339k62dg990u6pdi@4ax.com...   
   >>>> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:29:36 -0700, Jeanne Douglas   
   >>>>    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>> .   
   >>>>>In article <6as2jaldhjjmcjhpak2ek78djle21f75kp@4ax.com>, mur wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Here's one:   
   >>>>>> >>As yet not a single one of them has been able to make a   
   >>>>>> >>respectable reply   
   >>>>>> >>to   
   >>>>>> >>what should be an easy challenge for them IF they had any idea   
   >>>>>> >>what they   
   >>>>>> >>think   
   >>>>>> >>they're trying to talk about   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> out above. There is evidence or there would be nothing for anyone   
   >>>>>> to believe   
   >>>>>> in.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Are you really truly this stupid?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Are you?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> There is no proof and if you weren't horribly closed minded you   
   >>>>>> would consider   
   >>>>>> why there is evidence,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>What evidence?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Life itself is evidence.   
   >>>   
   >>>Of life and nothing else.   
   >>   
   >>     Only when that's what your mind is restricted to. When it's not   
   >>     people don't   
   >> put faith in that being the only possibility.   
   >   
   >   
   >      If you had proof you would not need   
   >faith. But you don't, so you do.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>>All accepted miracles are evidence.   
   >>>   
   >>>that some people are gullible and nothing else.   
   >>   
   >>     That's another guess you made that I have no reason to put any   
   >>     faith in.   
   >>   
   >>>>All miracles   
   >>>> recorded in the Bible are evidence.   
   >>>   
   >>>that some people know that other people are gullible and the former   
   >>>will eagerly take advantage of that fact.   
   >>   
   >>     What do you think the original authors of the Bible had to gain   
   >>     from what   
   >> they wrote down?   
   >   
   >   
   >    All Bronze age societies had a priest class   
   >which perpetuated itself thru writings and demand   
   >for alms and patronage.   
      
       So if they could keep from getting killed over it they could be sneaky and   
   get rich from it. How do you imagine it all came about to begin with? Do you   
   think maybe they had a club and decided to make up a bunch of bullshit and then   
   go out and try to get enough people to believe it, without getting themselves   
   killed in the process, that they would eventually become rich?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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