Jet <thatjetnospam at yahoo.com> wrote in news:3D37C4AB.AD6889CA at yahoo.com:
>>> John Knight wrote:
>>>> "Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
>> news:ah53hg$aks$1 at oasis.ccit.arizona.edu...>> > In article <3d35ea3f.214975 at news.freeserve.net>
>>angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk (Angilion) writes:
>> > <
>> > <On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:26:19 GMT, Bob LeChevalier
>> > <lojbab at lojban.org> <wrote:
>> > <
>> > {...}
>> > <
>> > <Ah, I see. That makes perfect sense if you believe the Bible to
>> > be <the Word Of God.
>> > <
>> > <Perfect anti-science - ignore any evidence that contradicts a
>> > hypothesis. <Ignore all evidence, really.
>> > <
>> > <Which translation of the Bible do you take as the Word Of God,
>> > that's <the question.
>> > <
>> >
>> > I'm always gobsmacked by the (rather sizeable) subset of Christians
>> > who believe that the King James is the one, true, and only correct
>> > translation into English. Apparently they feel that God wasn't
>> > terribly interested in pre-Elizabethan anglophones.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -- cary
>>>> The fact is that the more translations of the Holy Bible there are,
>> the better an understanding of it you can gain.
>>>> Looking at it from the perspectives of two or three or ten different
>> translators is an excellent way to clarify an important point that
>> might otherwise be obscured if you relied *only* on the KJV.
>>>> Also, there are some very whacked out translators who've gotten
>> caught trying to pull stunts like pretending that they believe that
>> jews were Isrealites, or that Israelites were jews.
>>>> Now, cary, what kind of translators do you think would want to pull a
>> stunt like that?
>>>> John Knight
>> Jesus was a Jew, so it always puzzles me why Xtian racists like you
> hate Jews.
They did sort of nail him to a cross, though the Romans. They all sort of
forget that he was fated to be nailed to a cross, but let's let that pass
for now.
>> J
>
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"...What you have to understand, young lady, is that the Greeks, not
content with dominating the culture of the Classical world, are also
responsible for the greatest, some would say the only, work of true
creative imagination produced this century as well. I refer of course to
the Greek ferry timetables. A work of the sublimest fiction. Anyone who
has travelled the Aegean will confirm this..." Professor Watkin - Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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