XPost: alt.atheism, alt.checkmate   
   From: nad318b404@gmail.invalid   
      
   Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!   
   On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 13:35:31 -0700, DIDDLER JIM'S GORMAN BALONEY wrote:   
      
   > Caution!  Always make ANSI approved giggles when reading drivel by Checkmate!   
   >   
   > On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:00:28 +0000, pandora  put forth the notion that:   
   >   
   >> >> I believe the bible is a book written by men who were trying to   
   >> >> understand the universe from their limited knowledge.   
   >> >   
   >> > It was written by men over 200 years after Jesus died, so none of them   
   >> > ever knew him, or knew anybody who had known him.  The men who wrote it   
   >> > wrote under the names of the apostles to gain credibility.  I suspect   
   >> > the body of Jesus was "disappeared" and claimed to be a "resurrection".   
   >> > A pretty convenient way of covering up any evidence, while also claiming   
   >> > a miracle.   
   >>   
   >> Sounds plausible.   
   >>   
   >> > When you see all the political tricks and head trips politicians use   
   >> > today and throughout history, you should realize that power hungry   
   >> > people have always been clever enough to fool a sufficient number of   
   >> > people to gain control.  Con man Joseph Smith picked up on how the game   
   >> > is played in 1820, when he claimed to have been given some magical   
   >> > golden plates by an angel, which he kept hidden in a hat.  He would   
   >> > "translate" them to an assistant to create the "Book of Mormon".   
   >> > Unfortunately, he later "gave them back to the angel" so they can't be   
   >> > examined.  A skeptic such as myself has a hard time buying any of it.   
   >>   
   >> Me too.   
   >>   
   >> > On the other hand, the more I learn about the complexities of living   
   >> > organisms, the harder it is to imagine the number of fortuitous random   
   >> > events it would take for there not to be something that had a hand in   
   >> > our creation. I've always said if there's a god, he must be a scientist,   
   >> > and we're merely lab rats in an experiment that's nearing its end... at   
   >> > least as far as humans are concerned.   
   >>   
   >> That is also a possibility.  Of course, that raises the question of who   
   >> created him/her/it.  Too much for my brain.   
   >   
   > Exactly.  The biggest question of all in my mind is where did all the STUFF   
   > come from?  It's frustrating to be smart enough to ask the question, but   
   > nowhere near smart enough to answer it.  This bugs me every single day.   
      
   Well, this goes a long way toward explaining why you're so jealous of kensi.   
      
   --   
   FNVWe Nadegda   
      
   "By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with   
   you." -- Mike Godwin, Aug 13, 2017, 8:03 PM   
   Checkmate admits that, for all intents and purposes, he carries a teddy   
   bear in public:    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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