On 11/24/2019 04:50 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 11/24/2019 5:36 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 19:26:18 -0300, Shadow wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:52:12 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:33:19 -0300, Shadow wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:40:38 -0500, micky
wrote:

As I suspected, the earth is shaped like a pizza pie.

Scholars believe this means the earth was invented by Italians.

Not invented. CREATED.
It's why the guys in the bible all have Italian names(they
were translated to Hebrew hundreds of years later - just to fsck with
our minds).
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That depends on which bible you are talking about. OT or New.

There are TWO of them?
Two to one? That's unfair. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance" never stood a chance.
But it might explain why my janitor is a Latino called
"Jesus". Assuming the second one was in the original Italian, of
course.
Thanks for the update.
Ping me when the third version is published. I'll torrent it.
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There are actually lots of versions but the big difference is between
the Old Testament that our Jewish friends have been passing down tor a
few thousand years and the New Testament written, mostly in western
Europe over the last 1500 years or so. Each brand of Christian seems
to have their own take on what it is supposed to say.



I went to Catholic school and they never made much mention of the bible.
It was like "don't bother reading it, we'll interpret it for you" Yeah,
sure, thanks.

That wasn't the worst thing in the world considering the crap
semi-literate self-ordained preachers have extracted from it.


Growing up we had a bible in the house and thought it would be a good
idea to read it. Two pages was enough.

I had an aunt on the Protestant side of the family who was considered to
be a religious nutter. She had a prominently displayed bible in the
living room. Being a kid who would read a ketchup label if there was
nothing else around, I gave it a whirl. I may have made it to three pages...

I never have read the complete OT. I did make it through 'Good News for
Modern Man' in boot camp. Like I said, I'll read anything and once
through the Green Book I'd gathered which way a Claymore should be
pointed and needed fresh material.

So, what did I learn from 12 years of Catholic school education? Use
your church envelope.

I was subjected to 'religious instruction' for a total of six years or
so. I was off to a good start when Sister Mary Elephant asked me to
recite one of the Commandments. It quickly became apparent I didn't even
know there were 10 commandments let alone being familiar with a
particular one. She branded me a Heathen. I still am. I did catch the
movie when it came out a couple of years later.

The high point was the nun using Necco wafers for the First Communion
practice. She did impress on us we weren't supposed to chew the real
thing. I was sad to learn of the demise of Necco. I used to walk by the
plant on Mass Ave. in Cambridge and can understand why the new owners
found 'sanitation issues'.

I did revisit the topic in my 30's. There are enough intelligent devout
Catholics that I thought re-examination was worthwhile. Still not for me
although I have more respect for the Catholic Church than the Church of
God with Signs Following.


https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com...gns-following/

Like I said, letting people read the bible isn't necessarily a good
thing. We won't even go into the inbred nutters at Westboro Baptist.