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From: paul@harper.net
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:48:33 GMT, John M Ward
wrote:
>In article ,
> Paul Harper wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:18:33 GMT, John M Ward
>> wrote:
>
>> >In article ,
>> > Matthew Sprange wrote:
>> >> May next year. . .
>> >
>> >...be a good year, one free from all the in-fighting among B5 fans
>> >for a start!
>
>> They closing the Church of Joe, then? :-)
>
>Hopefully so: worshipping false idols is so often the cause of conflict,
>such as skewed versions of Islam, which the Devil uses (a) to further
>his ends of creating suffering, and (b) to attempt to discredit God.
Okay. I now have a rather worrying image of you in long white
robes with matching beard and hair, fire and brimstone streaming from
your outstretched hands as you put straight the misguided masses with
an impressive pyrotechnical display of wrath-flinging!
Or as they know it in this family: "Dad's throwing a hissyfit again
because he can't find the remote control..." :-)
>There are so many gullible people that this still works -- rather like
>dodgy politicians who can also get away with it because the mass of the
>people aren't sharp enough to realise what's really going on.
>
>I suppose, in the final analysis, the Church of Joe will be judged far
>less of an issue than, say, the Jehovah's Witnesses and beyond them
>"Islamic" extremists, but the principle is the same.
Agreed. The problem arises when the false idols a) can't exist without
the worship, and b) start to believe what their worshipers tell them.
Still. There's always the thing about tall pedestals and the
inevitability of gravity...
Paul.
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