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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Pete nospam Zakel wrote:   
   > In article  M_P  writes:   
   >> On Jul 8, 12:39=A0am, Day Brown  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> That's not gonna get you there. Before that, you need for people to quit   
   >>> worshiping an alpha male tyrant concept of the divine. In scripture, all   
   >>> mind altering substances are evil.   
   >   
   >> Wrong:   
   >>   
   >> Proverbs 31:6 "Give strong drink to them that are sad: and wine to   
   >> them that are grieved in mind"   
   >>   
   >> Ecclesiasticus 31:36 "Wine drunken with moderation is the joy of the   
   >> soul and the heart."   
   >   
   > Not to mention that Jesus' first recorded miracle in the New Testament is   
   > turning water into wine for a wedding celebration.  And it mentions quite   
   > clearly that people were getting drunk.   
   >   
   > -Pete Zakel   
   >  (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
   >   
   > Weiler's Law:   
   > 	Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it   
   > 	himself.   
      
   	And the mention of Kanab Bosem in the ingredients for the incense to   
   be used in the Temple.  The trips into the desert by   
   Moses and Jesus greatly resemble the vision quests of other   
   people.   
      
   	The things that are not good are not intoxication but the   
   forgetful intoxication that leads to abominable behavior such   
   as the drunkenness of Lot when his daughters seduced him.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)