>>> Frank Masingill on Universal Chit Chat 
 FM> Atheists would not be bothered with science or historical context
Quoting short biblical excerpts isolated from context is Christian custom.
 FM> I don't style myself a Christian but as something of a historian I
 FM> hate to see ancient literature quoted without any context as though it
 FM> were self-explanatory.  ALL literature has context.  
Bible as literature?  What a demotion from infallible divine inspiration.
 FM> Vesuvius caught
 FM> them like a snapshot right in the middle of what they were doing just
 FM> as one crumbling of levies coud do to New Orleans or shifting crust
 FM> could do to California.  In fact, old Pliny was killed because he tried
 FM> to get too close to Pompey to study the phenomenon.  
Indeed, this exemplifies the Jehovah archetype, grumpy old man coming from on 
high, throwing fire and brimstone at people who bothered him.
... Both atheists and theists think too much about god.
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