Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> vallor wrote in
> news:ehich1Fc2pcU1@mid.individual.net:
>
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 22:10:45 +0000, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> >
> >> Raymond Karczewski wrote in
> >> news:abc3f360-4111-49b4-a867-4fcd975f1ea8@googlegroups.com:
> >>
> >>> The Bible is the HELL of Christian (Satanic) Conditioning, According
> >>> to a Living Christ!
> >>
> >> That doesn't even parse correctly, you stupid fuckwit.
> >
> > Orthogonally-related...a pastor from the Great Awakening once
> > preached:
> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> > ''
> > The Bible is not greater than conscience and reason. They are
> > directly from God, God's voice heard plainly in the heart, as even on
> > Horeb, or Sinai or the mount of transfiguration. Nothing can be
> > superior to these instructors. The Bible may agree with reason, utter
> > the same sentiments with conscience; and so far it will authority. It
> > can never contradict these counselors, and yet claim obedience. What
> > God has made cannot be unmade by any power short of his own; so
> > nothing arbitrary or capricious can ever become binding on reason and
> > conscience, let it be taught on what external authority it may. One
> > chief merit of Christianity consists in restoring natural morality and
> > natural religion to their original and proper place, in permitting
> > conscience, reason and the religious sentiment to speak in their
> > native, heavenly tones, and with their primitive authority. By thus
> > restoring natural religion, by thus appealing to those divine
> > counselors and prophets of eternity, it overthrows all arbitrary
> > systems of religion which are not founded in the nature and reason of
> > things; and puts to eternal silence all capricious advisers. Thus by
> > fulfilling the true, the right, the good, and the holy, it destroys
> > all that is false, wrong, bad, and profane.
> >
> > Other religions have also their sacred books. The Hindoos [sic] have
> > their Vedas and puranas ; Mahometans their Koran ; sectarians their
> > creed. These books are deemed by the foolish among their followers
> > greater than the soul, superior to conscience, reason and the
> > religious sentiment. They are appealed to as masters, the last
> > standard of faith, are honored as the sole and exclusive foundation of
> > these peculiar religions systems. They can only be the basis of a
> > system that is not founded in the nature and reason of things. Faith
> > in the peculiar institutions of such books, in the Vedas, Korans and
> > creeds, in any arbitrary system, is not freedom but bondage. It is
> > not obedience to the universal "law of the spirit of life," but to
> > some partial statute of man's device. It degrades man while it
> > comforts him. It puts his better nature to a deadly sleep before it
> > offers him relief from the present, or faith for the future. Such
> > systems the apostle well calls the "Hagars shapen in ignorance, born
> > into bondage with their children, which are to be driven out before
> > the freeborn Isaac, and destined like Ishmael to have their hand
> > against every man." Of the scriptures, then, it may be said, as it
> > has been of the Sabbath: "The Bible was made for man, not man for the
> > Bible." ''
> > -Theodore Parker, _The Transient and Permanent in Christianity_
>
> I doubt the Fake Dead Ray would recognize himself anywhere in that text.
>
> It's simply a distraction to hide the CONTRADICTIONS IN ESSENCE that are
> infused with SATANIC THOUGHTS.
Real Ray used to freely quote from the bible, refer to
its metaphors, like the parable of the blind men and the
elephant.
Of course, when the bible Contradicts-in-Essence the
Word-o`-Ray, then the bible was merely a SATANIC,
dualistic thought-based instrument of oppression.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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