"JOHNJWILSON -> ROSS SAUER"  wrote in
news:10626$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 ->>>> * Those who regularly attend Sunday School are more likely to
 J>>> believe -> that the Bible is less true.

 J>>> Literalism is bound to decline.

 ->> That's the whole concept behind Ken Ham's way of thinking, John.

 J> This is the first I've heard of him.

You need to watch more TV. 

 ->> Ham is a Biblical literalist, and Young-Earth Creationist.
 ->> To him, every word in the Bible is absoutely a fact, and the
 J> universe is -> less than 10,000 years old.

 J> April of 4004 B.C., I belief. Wait. That's NOT what I believe! :-)
 J> Bishop Usser. (Ussher?)...

Yeah, he came to that date by counting all the "begats."

 ->> That's why his "museum" in Kentucky puts saddles on dinosaur
 J> models. Yee hah! (Wonder what the saddles are made off. Probably
 J> plastic, and he's got one hell of a story about THAT! )

All the credible evidence says dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago,
while a few smaller ones may have evolved into birds.

 ->> Ham's brand of literalism is on the decline, and that's what scares
 J> the -> porkeptsies out of him and his bunch.

 J> Loss of power, loss of influence, loss of money. Still, there are
 J> churches in Texas with 10,000 members...

I don't like those megachurches.
Usually they devote most of their service to fundraising.

 J> Churches should go belly up as soon as they really figure out the
 J> internet...I think by next year I'll have gotten around to putting my
 J> Church on line...look for the Church of Variable Likelihood dot
 J> something

You should do that, just for the heck of it.

 ->> Hence his essay here at one of the few places that would actually
 J> publish
 ->> it, WorldNetDaily.

 J> I've heard of 'em. Never read it.

Really stupid bunch.

 ->> You know even Chuck Norris and Pat Boone write for that website?


 J> Do you know whose opinions I not give a rats ass about? Is there any
 J> reason you know why I should? Now -- I can give a dozen reasons why
 J> THEY should pay attention to MINE...:-)

You'd never make it at WND.
You're too intelligent. 

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