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   From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com   
      
   What's so funny about peace, love and "DeEler Expoza"   
    posting the following on Wed, 5   
   Oct 2005 12:35:27 -0500 iin alt.atheism?   
   >   
   >"Douglas Berry"  wrote in message   
   >news:5qh7k1depgp8i8onudvpk6q31lt90c14n0@4ax.com...   
   >> What's so funny about peace, love and Atreides   
   >>  posting the following on Tue, 04 Oct 2005   
   >> 18:49:55 -0400 iin alt.atheism?   
   >>>Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> So who hid the evidence of a couple of million people plus their   
   >>>> livestock   
   >>>> wandering the Sinai desert for forty years.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Klazmon   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>What evidence are you looking for?   
   >------------------------   
   >> Shit.  Or to use the more scientific term, corpoilites.  Garbage   
   >> middens, camp sites, ancient fire pits.  If this tribe of people   
   >> really did spend 40 years wandering the relatively tiny area between   
   >> the Red Sea and the historical location of ancient Israel, they would   
   >> have left plenty of evidence.   
   >   
   >## And so far not one bit has been found.  Not one!  There would be   
   >everything from broken pottery, bits of jewelry, an old sandal, tools, of   
   >some kind...   the fundies have a problem explaining this one.   
   >   
   >> But instead what we find is that the ancient Israelites were   
   >> homegrown, and there was no Egyptian captivity.   
   >   
   >##  Someone back then was a good fiction writer!  :-)   
      
   It made them sound bad ass, since the Egyptians were still   
   world-beaters when Israel was founded.  "The Egyptians?  Feh.  We left   
   when we felt like it, and our God smashed their armies!  We rock!"   
      
   --   
      
   Douglas E. Berry  Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail   
   Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5   
      
   "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as   
    when they do it from religious conviction."   
           Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.   
      
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