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   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: obama.is@fraud.gov   
      
   On 2012-06-08 11:12:34 -0700, "Jeff Strickland"  said:   
      
   >   
   > "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher"   
   >  wrote in message   
   > news:e07142f2-07f1-4225-a229-52baf0a26acb@v9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...   
   >> It is said that a man called Jesus once rode a donkey to prove some   
   >> point about his humbleness. Not that it made his future followers --   
   >> the Christians-- any more humble, but it seems that a fully grown man   
   >> riding a donkey represents a burden for the poor beast. I'd say that   
   >> would represent, say, having a man carry 50 lbs for hours on end. Not   
   >> that the donkey would complain and say "Hey man, that's heavy," but   
   >> that would make for a brutish life. It is evident that Jesus could   
   >> have walked on foot the same path and still be Jesus.   
   >>   
   >> Nowadays I choose to ride a bike to prove a point, but it's often   
   >> ignored. Perhaps the Christians are not good at  drawing parallels. I   
   >> can not ride a donkey without drawing too much attention. And there's   
   >> the fact that it may represent animal cruelty.   
   >>   
   >> But that's only my humble opinion.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > You are without a doubt the silliest person whom I have ever had the   
   > displeasure to read. Asking a donkey to carry a 175-pound man, and   
   > Jesus was likely lighter than that, is less than asking a child to   
   > carry half of his body weight in books. You do not assert child   
   > endangerment because a kid has to carry books to school, but you assert   
   > (without any validation) that a pack animal that can easily carry a   
   > load several times the weight of Jesus is being treated badly. What a   
   > maroon.   
      
   Likely the only contact this idiot would have with a donkey involved   
   some distasteful display in Tijuana.   
      
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   "The Taliban, per se, is not our enemy." --Joe Biden, Dec. 2011   
      
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