Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Dan Ceppa"  wrote in
 RS> news:9412$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>>>> they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the
 EH>>   corners of DC> the
 RS>>>>> streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you,
 EH>>   They DC>> have
 RS>>>>> their reward.   (6:5-6)

 DC>>>> It's your bible.  You claim to follow it.
 EH>>>> You don't get to interpret it for me, though.

 DC>>> What's to interpret, Ed?  Hie thee to thy closet.

 EH>> It doesn't mean to literally hide in a closet to pray.

 DC>>>> The quote is quite straight forward for even you to understand
 EH>>   it.

 EH>>>> It is, but you miss the point it is making.

 DC>>> The point is that you need to keep your mumbo jumbo out of the
 EH>>   face DC> of others.

 EH>> That isn't the point. The pharisees were known to pray loudly in an
 EH>> effort to impress others that they were holier than the common folk.
 EH>> Their prayers were in vain because they were basically making a show
 EH>> of it.

 RS> Yes. It was a way of showing off, just like the public prayer pimps are
 RS> doing nowadays.

What on earth are you going on about?

 DC>>> What's ostentatious about a street corner, Ed?  Any public
 EH>>   display DC> is wrong, according to the godling.

 EH>> Again, you don't know what you are talking about. Who prays on street
 EH>> corners? Are you talking about street preachers? You won't find any

 RS> The people you imitate, the Westboro Baptist Church.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Can you make anything else up?

 EH>> LDS preaching on the street.

 RS> No, but they go from door to door, fortunately they no longer get all
 RS> huffy if you tell them no.

They never have, nor will they ever "get huffy" if you tell them no.

 DC>>> Which is asolutely in line with that verse.  That's way is
 EH>>   should be DC> with all public gatherings.

 EH>> You, being an atheist, don't get to say what Christian doctrine is.

 RS> You don't either, because you are not a Christian.

You don't even know what a Christian is.

Ed

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