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   XPost: alt.atheism   
   From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com   
      
   Great Lord , braving the raging   
   storm, scaled the mighty crag called alt.atheism on Fri, 4 Jun 2004   
   23:02:22 GMT and screamed this to the uncaring Gods.   
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   >    Even earlier than the account in the Epic of Gilgamesh is the Sumerian   
   myth that presents “Ziusudra, the counterpart of the biblical Noah, who is   
   described as a pious, a god-fearing king, constantly on the lookout for divine   
   revelations in dreams or    
   incantations.” (Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament)   
   According to the same source, this myth “offers the closest and most striking   
   parallel to biblical material as yet uncovered in Sumerian literature.” The   
   Babylonian and Assyrian    
   civilizations, which came later, were influenced by the Sumerian.   
      
   Could you set your line length please?   
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   Douglas E. Berry  Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail   
      
   "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as   
    when they do it from religious conviction."   
           Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)