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Skriven 2015-04-23 19:45:41 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 23986 av Bill McGarrity (16010.2fidonews)
Ärende: FidoNews 32:16 [01/07]: Food For Thought
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 BM> There are many *stories* as you say in the Bible but understanding it's
 BM> prime message is where you must focus.

   Absolutely true! And the basis of understanding it is to know the history of
how and when the folklore it presents was written.

   As I've said before, it wasn't until the Babylonian captivity that the Jews
learned how to write down all their old folklore. And then they mixed it all up
with old Babylonian folklore.

 BM> Because a person has faith in what was
 BM> written doesn't make then brainwashed.

   Of course it does. Every person with a free mind can see that their
scriptures have huge logical gaps. Believing in those human words and then
update them into being gospels of a single god just because a priest says so,
that is not what I think of as the result of a free mind.

 BF>> Every single one of human misdeeds throughout history can be
 BF>> explained by two words: leaders and priests. And when they work
 BF>> together, the result is even more horrifying.

 BM> As is the same with all ambitious but misguided men.

   Can you think of any such man that does not fall under the category of
leader and/or priest?

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