"JOHNJWILSON -> ROSS SAUER"  wrote in
news:10648$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 ->> Who was it who said, "The Devil can quote scripture for his own
 J> purposes?"

 J> Actually a lot of people have. Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice
 J> (Referring to Matthew Chapter four, which refers to Psalm 41.)

Not sure if you're right, but that's not important.

 ->> The point is, the Flat Earth Society, (which still exists,
 J> surprisingly,)
 ->> can find scripture to back their strange view of the universe.

 J> What is really mind-blowing is that strange as that might be (and is)
 J> stranger still is the universe(s) of the Quantum field, string theory,
 J> dark matter, cosmic acceleration, antiparticles borrowing energy to
 J> become...to become! Space time and ten (or11) dimensions, parallel
 J> universes...

Oh yeah. The more we study the universe, it just becomes more and more
incredible. Not the severely limited universe of the Bible-thumpers.

 ->> Fred Phelps can too.

 J> Is he someone I should look up?

Only if you don't mind getting pissed off.
He and his family "church" are the bunch that travel around with their
"God Hates Fags" and "God Hates The US" signs.
They've been picketing military funerals, sayig "God Hates Soldiers" and
lately they've gone over to picketing Jews.
They're attention whores, and simply vicious.

 ->> So can the "God says to make me rich" preachers.

 J> Rich preachers piss me off.

Especially the ones that are obviously rich yet continue to beg for
money, like Pat Robertson.

 J> But then, rich congressmen piss me off too, if they weren't rich when
 J> they got into politics...

Or if they got rich DUE TO their politics, like the corrupt bastard Dick
Cheney.

 RC>>> Snyder did at one time venture out into the echoes, even this
 J> one.. ->
 ->> Open mouth. Insert foot. Chew. 

 J> argument, but become someone who is dismissed as a doomed sinner, I
 J> guess...:-) I had an interesting exchange with Mr. Snyder:
 J> He bragged about having studied the bible for 40 years...
 J> I told him I had a full twenty years on his...
 J> He replied that THAT the number of year didn't matter...
 J> (To which I agree: but he misses the point: HIS 40 years doesn't
 J> matter either :-)

Snyder comes across as an intolerant asshole.

 J> Ivebeen studying and enjoying the study of the Bible for 62 years now
 J> and I'm still studying it and am far from being a biblical scholar...
 J> (I've also become a  lover of the Koran, The Bhagavad Gita - Sufi's,
 J> Jains, Buddhists (Mahayana)...It's a wonderful theological world -and
 J> a great hobby. So, I'm a heretic. So, I started my own church. :-) The
 J> only one I know not lookin for new members or money :-)

Yeah, I started my own club years ago, BAT.
Burn All Ties.

I hate wearing a tie, and feel those useless hunks of cloth should be
burned. 

I mean, Hitler always wore a tie...

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